EVA-Bench: A New End-to-end Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents
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Voice agents are increasingly deployed across enterprise applications. However, no existing benchmark jointly addresses realistic conversation simulation and comprehensive voice-specific evaluation. We present EVA-Bench, an end-to-end evaluation framework that addresses both. On the simulation side, EVA-Bench orchestrates dynamic bot-to-bot audio conversations with automatic simulation validation that detects user simulator error and appropriately regenerates conversations before scoring. On the measurement side, EVA-Bench introduces two composite metrics: EVA-A (Accuracy) and EVA-X (Experience). EVA-Bench includes 213 scenarios across three enterprise domains, a controlled perturbation suite for accent and noise robustness, and multi-trial measurements that distinguish peak from reliable capability. Across 12 systems spanning all three architectures, we find: (1) no system simultaneously exceeds 0.5 on both EVA-A pass@1 and EVA-X pass@1; (2) peak and reliable performance diverge substantially (median pass@k--passk gap of 0.44 on EVA-A); and (3) accent and noise perturbations expose substantial robustness gaps, with effects varying across architectures, systems, and metrics (mean Delta up to 0.314). We release EVA-Bench under an open-source license.
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- 2026Just A Rather Very Intelligent Spoken Agent18 Jul 2026
- 2026IHBench: Evaluating Post-Interruption Recovery in Voice Agents with Structured Workflows17 Jun 2026
- 2026Auditing Bias and Safety in Voice AI Customer Care18 May 2026
- 2026IHBench: Evaluating Post-Interruption Recovery in Voice Agents with Structured Workflowscited by 5
- 2026MTVA-Bench: Evaluating the Language Model Inside Cascaded Voice Agentscited by 3
- 2026A frontend-backend architecture for tool calls in full-duplex speech modelscited by 1
- 2026Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: Towards Reliable Agentic Voice Interactioncited by 1
- 2026Just A Rather Very Intelligent Spoken Agentcited by 0
- 2026Trust and Task Completion in the World of Consumer AI Agentscited by 0
- 2026Talk2Agent: Benchmarking Voice Interfaces for Text Agentscited by 0
- 2026Talk2Agent: Benchmarking Voice Interfaces for Text Agents30 Sep 2026
- 2026Trust and Task Completion in the World of Consumer AI Agents26 Sep 2026
- 2026Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: Towards Reliable Agentic Voice Interaction21 Sep 2026
- 2026MTVA-Bench: Evaluating the Language Model Inside Cascaded Voice Agents17 Sep 2026
- 2026A frontend-backend architecture for tool calls in full-duplex speech models16 Sep 2026
- 2026Just A Rather Very Intelligent Spoken Agent18 Jul 2026
- 2026IHBench: Evaluating Post-Interruption Recovery in Voice Agents with Structured Workflows17 Jun 2026
- 2026VAmoS Bench: Voice Agent Simulation Benchcited by 6
- 2026FormBharo: Designing and Evaluating a Voice Agent for Conversational Form Filling in Rural Indiacited by 0
- 2026When Patients Cut In: Extending Clinical Conversational AI Safety to Interruptionscited by 0
- 2026Auditing Bias and Safety in Voice AI Customer Carecited by 0
- 2026τ-Elicitation: Benchmarking multi-turn entity extraction in voice agentscited by 0
- 2026Inquesto Score: A reliability Protocol For Voice Agentscited by 0
- 2026CoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settingscited by 0
- 2026τ-Multilingual: Benchmarking Voice Agents Across Languagescited by 0
- 2026Prompts versus Rules: Auditing and Controlling Speech Naturalness Behaviors in Voice User Simulatorscited by 0
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- 2026CoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings28 Sep 2026
- 2026Inquesto Score: A reliability Protocol For Voice Agents24 Sep 2026
- 2026τ-Multilingual: Benchmarking Voice Agents Across Languages21 Sep 2026
- 2026τ-Elicitation: Benchmarking multi-turn entity extraction in voice agents11 Sep 2026
- 2026When Patients Cut In: Extending Clinical Conversational AI Safety to Interruptions29 Aug 2026
- 2026FormBharo: Designing and Evaluating a Voice Agent for Conversational Form Filling in Rural India6 Aug 2026
- 2026VAmoS Bench: Voice Agent Simulation Bench29 Jul 2026
- 2026Auditing Bias and Safety in Voice AI Customer Care18 May 2026