Same breakdown. More noise. Different prompt.
"We don't do roadside. Call a tow. If it's dangerous, call the police. Hazards on, stay in the car."
She hung up with a plan.
The most robust agent isn't the one that extracts every detail.
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Agent, on a noisy breakdown call:
"I understand you don't need an Uber."
Nobody said Uber. The caller had said "appointment" eleven times.
One wrong word in an otherwise correct sentence.
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Moderate noise.
Caller: "Is Eleanor Pike spelled rig"
Agent: "Are you still there?"
She was still talking. The VAD decided her turn was over.
Filed as: "Agent interrupts."
Actual issue: endpointing.
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Honest one about our own harness.
Our synthetic callers open almost every call with "Sorry, I didn't quite catch that" before the agent has said anything worth missing.
That's our bug, not the agent's.
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Car died on the interstate. Kids in the back. Noise on the line.
Voice agent: "Could you provide the number in the format (XXX) XXX-XXXX?"
She said "I'm on the side of the road with my kids" fourteen times.
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Caller: "A sort of grinding? Worse when turning."
Agent: "That could indicate an issue with the brakes or steering." Same turn: "I can't say for certain without an inspection."
Diagnosed and disclaimed in one breath.
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Caller: "I only have the one number I gave you."
Agent: "Let's try that other phone number you mentioned."
She never mentioned another number.
The agent had asked about one so many times it started believing it.
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Caller: "the oil light came on"
Agent: "I'm sorry about your broken oil pan. Don't drive the truck."
It was a Chevy Trax. No oil pan was mentioned.
STT made one error. The LLM repeated it six times.
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Noise broke the caller's name. Then his phone number.
Caller: "Could you check with my email?"
Agent: "Unfortunately, I cannot look up accounts by email address."
The one field that survived the noise was the one the tool couldn't use.
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Three callers.
Three numbers.
Same readback:
(214) 555-1182
That's the example number from the prompt.
The real number got garbled. The model grabbed the clean one it already knew.
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Full-volume noise. Caller reads a phone number.
Transcript: "I don't know what caskets sasssex means"
Nobody said that. The STT invented it and the agent asked her to clarify it.
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Caller: "It's the THIRD time I've brought my Trax in for the same fault and it is still not fixed!"
Agent: "I'm doing well, thank you for asking! How can I help you today?"
The noise ate the complaint. The agent answered a greeting.
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Caller: "(430) 555-0135"
Agent: "Could you provide the area code?"
Caller: "430. That's the area code."
Agent: "The number appears to be missing the area code."
Full-volume noise. The first three digits vanished. Twice.
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Caller's number: (430) 555-0135.
Agent: "Let's try this again, but I will format it correctly for the system: (four three zero) five five zero, zero one three five."
555 became 550. The fix introduced the error.
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Caller: "Yes, I'm here."
Agent: "Are you still there?"
Caller: "Yes, yes, I'm here."
Agent: "It seems like we're having trouble connecting. Are you still there?"
Full-volume noise. The agent heard silence where she was talking.
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Real caller, full-volume noise:
"It's zero one five eight, not Farah eight."
Then the agent read (325) 555-0167 back as (325) 550-167.
One digit gone. One lookup dead.
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Caller, cut off mid-sentence: "So can you do it or"
Agent: "I apologize, I'm not sure what you mean by 'help with the cord.'"
Nobody mentioned a cord. Noise finished her sentence for her.
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Caller: "It's a 2020 Chevrolet Trax LS."
Agent: "I understand it's an LS truck. Do you know the make and model, for example a Chevrolet Silverado LS?"
Moderate noise. It kept "LS." It lost "Chevrolet Trax."
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