How to Evaluate Live & Voice Agents in ADK
Moving live voice agents from demo to production requires rigorous, automated testing to handle the unpredictability of real multi-turn conversations.
By Dillip Chowdary • Aug 25, 2026 • Source: Google Developers Blog
What happened
Google Developers Blog reports: How to Evaluate Live & Voice Agents in ADK. Moving live voice agents from demo to production requires rigorous, automated testing to handle the unpredictability of real multi-turn conversations. ADK now provides native live evaluation, allowing developers to test graph-based agent workflows against LLM-driven simulated users that generate actual audio via…
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How it works
Read the original coverage at Google Developers Blog via the source link above for the complete details and primary quotes.
Who is affected
Cross-check release notes and official docs before changing production systems based on early reporting.
Developer Action Items
- ☐ Diff the official changelog for Google before you bump — APIs, defaults, and removed flags only.
- ☐ Install through the vendor's documented channel in staging; keep a one-command rollback and time-box the canary.
- ☐ Grep your repo for old flag names, lockfile pins, and plugin versions that the notes mark as breaking.
- ☐ Prefer the first patch cut over the day-zero tag unless you have a reason to be on the leading edge.
- ☐ If Google Developers Blog did not name a region, plan, or SKU, screenshot the official availability line before you promise it to users.
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