Voice AI Audio Compatibility: A 12-Case Phone/Web Acceptance Test
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Decision in one minute Do not approve a phone voice agent because its browser demo sounds clear, because a vendor says “we support 8 kHz,” or because one test call completed. Approve the path only after you can name the representation at every boundary, observe what actually crosses that boundary, and pass a small compatibility suite on the real phone and browser routes you intend to support. The distinction that prevents most avoidable audio defects is this: a sample rate is not a c