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Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required

Amazon just open-sourced a tool that lets you evaluate voice agents at scale without hardware. Here's why that matters for your deployment timeline.

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Why it matters

Amazon Nova Sonic is gaining infrastructure tooling for production evaluation. The Nova Test Harness removes a key friction point in voice agent development—the need for microphone-based testing—and introduces LLM-as-judge validation at scale, signaling Amazon's push to make voice agents deployable beyond experimental stages.

The key facts

7 to know
  1. Amazon Nova Sonic Test Harness is open source

  2. Supports multi-turn conversation evaluation automatically

  3. Uses LLM-as-judge techniques for quality validation

  4. Detects audio hallucinations (mismatch between audio and text output)

  5. No microphone hardware required for testing

  6. Enables rapid iteration on system prompts and tool configurations

  7. Designed for scale evaluation of voice agents

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AWS Machine Learning Blogaws.amazon.com

Publisher 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…
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