You've built your voice AI. Now let's ship it.
Week 3 is all about production readiness.
Monday: Unit Testing Voice Agents
Testing voice AI is different. You can't just assert on strings.
// Preview: Testing conversation flows
describe('booking flow', () => {
it('handles ambiguous dates gracefully', async () => {
const session = createTestSession();
await session.say("Book a flight for next weekend");
expect(session.response).toMatch(/Saturday.*Sunday/);
expect(session.state.clarificationNeeded).toBe(true);
expect(session.intent).toBe('booking.clarify_dates');
});
});We'll cover:
- Mocking voice input/output
- Testing conversation state machines
- Fuzzy matching for natural language
- Snapshot testing for prompts
Tuesday: Integration Testing with Mock Voices
End-to-end testing without hitting production APIs:
// Preview: Full conversation simulation
const simulator = new VoiceSimulator({
mockSTT: true,
mockTTS: true,
mockLLM: 'deterministic',
});
const result = await simulator.runConversation([
{ user: "What's my account balance?" },
{ expect: { intent: 'account.balance', tool: 'get_balance' } },
{ user: "Transfer fifty dollars to savings" },
{ expect: { intent: 'transfer', confirmation: true } },
{ user: "Yes, confirm" },
{ expect: { success: true } },
]);Wednesday: Changelog
Automated release notes from the week's deployments.
Thursday: Deployment Patterns
Zero-downtime deployments for voice services:
# Preview: Blue-green deployment
deployment:
strategy: blue-green
healthCheck:
endpoint: /health
interval: 5s
threshold: 3
rollback:
automatic: true
trigger: error_rate > 1%Topics:
- Blue-green deployments
- Canary releases
- Feature flags for voice
- Rollback strategies
Friday: Production Monitoring
What to watch when your voice AI goes live:
// Preview: Key metrics
const metrics = {
// Latency (p50, p95, p99)
'voice.response_latency': histogram(),
// Success rates
'voice.completion_rate': gauge(),
'voice.intent_success_rate': gauge(),
// User experience
'voice.retry_rate': counter(),
'voice.escalation_rate': counter(),
// Business metrics
'voice.task_completion': counter(),
'voice.user_satisfaction': gauge(),
};Saturday: Scaling Voice AI
From 10 users to 10,000:
- Horizontal scaling strategies
- Connection pooling
- Geographic distribution
- Cost optimization
Sunday: Month 1 Recap
What we've covered:
- Platform fundamentals
- Authentication & security
- Performance optimization
- Testing & deployment
And a preview of Month 2: Advanced integrations.
This Week's Highlights
In case you missed them:
- Authentication Deep Dive - OAuth, JWTs, and multi-tenant auth
- Performance Optimization - Sub-200ms response times
- Community Spotlight: MindfulMoments - Voice AI for mental health
- Error Handling Patterns - Graceful degradation
- Voice AI vs Chatbots - When to use which
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See you Monday!