
Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required
Quick Answer
AWS introduces the Nova Sonic Test Harness, an open-source framework for evaluating Amazon Nova Sonic voice agents at scale without a microphone.
Quick Take
This tool automates multi-turn conversations, assesses output quality using -as-judge techniques, and identifies audio hallucinations, enhancing system prompt tuning and configuration validation.
Key Points
- Nova Sonic Test Harness automates evaluation of voice agents at scale.
- Framework uses LLM-as-judge techniques for quality assessment.
- Detects audio hallucinations where audio and text outputs mismatch.
- Facilitates rapid iteration for tuning system prompts and configurations.
- No microphone is required for the evaluation process.
Source Excerpt
In this post, we walk you through the Nova Sonic Test Harness, an open source framework that we built to solve both problems. It serves as a rapid iteration tool for tuning system prompts and tool configurations (run a conversation, see results, adjust, repeat) and as a comprehensive evaluation framework for validating voice agent quality at scale. It runs complete multi-turn conversations with Amazon Nova Sonic automatically, evaluates them using -as-judge techniques, and can even detect cas
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