Brooke Hopkins is the CEO of <a href="https://www.coval.dev/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Coval</a>, a company making voice agents more reliable. Reliable Voice Agents // MLOps Podcast #347 with Brooke Hopkins, Founder of Coval.Join the Community: <a href="https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn</a>Get the newsletter: <a href="https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter</a>// AbstractVoice AI is finally growing up—but not without drama. Brooke Hopkins joins Demetrios Brinkmann to unpack why most “smart” voice systems still feel dumb, what it actually takes to make them reliable, and how startups are quietly outpacing big tech in building the next generation of voice agents.// BioBrooke Hopkins is the founder of Coval, a simulation and evaluation platform for AI agents. She previously led the evaluation job infrastructure at Waymo. There, her team was responsible for the developer tools for launching and running simulations, and she engineered many of the core simulation systems from the ground up.// Related LinksWebsite: <a href="https://www.coval.dev/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.coval.dev/</a>~~~~~~~~ ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ~~~~~~~Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: <a href="https://go.mlops.community/TYExplore" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://go.mlops.community/TYExplore</a>Join our Slack community [<a href="https://go.mlops.community/slack" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://go.mlops.community/slack</a>]Follow us on X/Twitter [@mlopscommunity](<a href="https://x.com/mlopscommunity" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/mlopscommunity</a>) or [LinkedIn](<a href="https://go.mlops.community/linkedin" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://go.mlops.community/linkedin</a>)] Sign up for the next meetup: [<a href="https://go.mlops.community/register" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://go.mlops.community/register</a>]MLOps Swag/Merch: [<a href="https://shop.mlops.community/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://shop.mlops.community/</a>]Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">/dpbrinkm</a>Connect with Brooke on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bnhop/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">/bnhop/</a>Timestamps:[00:00] Workshop feedback[02:21] IVR frustration and transition[05:06] Voice use cases in business[11:00] Voice AI reliability challenge[18:46] Voice AI reliability issues[24:35] Injecting context[27:16] Conversation flow analysis[34:52] AI overgeneralization and confidence[37:41] Wrap up

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