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How should multilingual voice agents be evaluated?

Test the languages, accents, background conditions and code-switching patterns of the intended audience. Evaluate critical details such as dates, names and negation, plus end-to-end task completion. Broad language support does not establish uniform reliability, so retain an alternative interaction path and document conditions the product cannot handle well.

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