We're excited to announce that AI Voice Agents are now live on the Now Platform!
AI Voice Agents bring natural, human-like conversations to your customer and employee experiences—answering questions, resolving issues, and completing tasks through voice interactions. Whether it's resetting a password, checking incident status, or managing travel expenses, AI Voice Agents transform each call into an intelligent and effortless experience by understanding context, adapting to intent, and delivering results without friction.
Built specifically for the Now Platform, AI Voice Agents integrate seamlessly with your existing systems to automate service requests, reduce call volumes, and deliver quick, personalized support at scale. With customizable voice options, multilingual support to serve customers across the globe, and comprehensive analytics that track key metrics and sentiment from each call - you have everything you need to create exceptional voice experiences with seamless live agent transfer when needed.
We've compiled answers to the most frequently asked questions to help you get started
*Full FAQ Attached*
GENERAL
Q: What are the requirements for using AI Voice Agents?
A: To utilize AI Voice Agents on the platform, ensure you have the following:
- Now Assist Entitlements
- Required plugins installed
- nowassist-ai-agents 6.0.16
- nowassist-aia-voice 2.0.9
- app-hr-voice-aia 2.0.5
- app-itsm-voice-aia:1.1.4
- A supported Contact Center Integration with systems such as Genesys Cloud or Twilio. Additional details can be found here
Q: What Voice Agents are included Out of the Box (OOB)?
ITSM:
- Create New Incident
- Check Incident Status
- Outlook Troubleshooting
- Catalog Item Request
- Password Reset
HR:
- Create New Case
- Check Case Status
- PTO Related Inquiries
- Travel Expenses
- Update Employee Information
CSM
- Manage Order Operation
- Order Case Self Service
Q: What ServiceNow patch level is required to leverage the Voice Capability?
A: Zurich Patch 4. Available in Yokohama Patch 11 in January
Q: How do I get started with creating my first AI Voice Agent?
A: There are three core steps in the configuration process. They are completed within the Assistant Designer and AI Agent Studio.
Creating an AI Voice Assistant
Q: What license is needed to utilize AI Voice Agents?
A: Generally speaking, you will need a Now Assist license (Pro+ or Enterprise+) to use AI Voice Agents. Please speak with your account team for full details on the entitlements.
Q: What drives the questions that the Voice Agent asks during the conversation?
A: The conversation flow is driven by our Voice Orchestrator. End user utterances are routed to the LLM, which generates the next meaningful response and determines where the conversation should go.
This behavior is influenced by the user’s input, the AI Voice Agents configured for that service, and the tools available to those agents—such as scripts, flow actions, subflows, and RAG-based search.
Q: How many assists are consumed per call?
A: 50 assists per call is the current consumption rate. However, we strongly advise checking the Now Assist Overview publications regularly for the most current rates.
Please Note: Calls with a duration less than 30 seconds will not consume any assists.
Q: What languages are supported in AI Voice Agents?
A: In addition to English, the Dec. 2025 store release adds support for German and Spanish. Additional languages will be supported in future releases
Q: Can I access call transcripts?
A: Yes, the full transcript from each call (caller and voice agent) gets logged within an Interaction record and Conversation table as soon as the call ends
Q: What model provider(s) are we using?
A: We support Azure OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic Claude
Q: Does the AI Voice Agent support channels outside of IVR? For example, omni-channel experiences such as portal, mobile app, or even collaboration platforms like MS Teams?
A: Callers will be able to engage AI Voice agents from within the SN mobile app, starting in Q1. We will support other channels later in 2026.
CONFIGURATION
Q: What fallback options are available?
A: When a call exceeds an established time limit (10 minutes), or the AIVA runs out of assistance/answers to offer, fallback is initiated. Current fallback options include:
- Connect to a live agent.
- Generate a ticket with Record Producer
Q: Will Voice AI Agents leverage the existing (chat based) AI Agents?
A: Not yet. In the initial release, AI Voice Agents operate separately from the AI Agents used by Virtual Agent. They can, however, use many of the same tools—such as record operations, subflows, scripts, flow actions, RAG search, file upload, and MCP server—but the voice runtime is optimized specifically for real-time interactions.
Longer term, our direction is to converge these runtimes so a single AI Agent framework can power voice and chat.
Q: Will KB articles be summarized and read back within the voice channel?
A: Yes, KB Summarization and KB Search can be achieved through the OOB Search Retrieval Tool.
Note: To optimize response time, filter to the specific knowledge bases that address common use cases to the Voice Channel (rather than an open-ended search of all KB's).
Q: What type of authentication is supported? Can platform data be used in authentication?
A: Knowledge Factors is a supported authentication method, and it uses information stored on platform (e.g. Data on the User table) to aid in authentication. The following is the full list of supported authentication methods in AI Voice Agents:
- PIN
- SMS Code
- Knowledge Factors
- OTP (Auth App/One Time Passcode)
- Okta Push Notification
Q: Will Voice interactions be summarized for live agents (similar to chat summarization from the Virtual Agent)?
A: Yes, we summarize the transcript upon live agent transfer and that is captured in the Interaction Record.
Q: Regarding Analytics, what experience will be available?
A: An AI Voice Agent Analytics dashboard aggregates key metrics related to voice assistant usage and performance - including total voice conversations, deflected conversations, conversation outcomes, satisfaction scores, and performance of AI agents invoked by voice assistants.
You can access the dashboard from the Analytics tab within Assistant Designer
Q: Is there regulated market (GCC, etc.) support for the Voice capability?
A: Not yet, but there will be soon. GCC support is planned for Q1. With other regulated markets supported targeted for Q2 ‘26.
Q: Can AI Voice Agents be activated for a given option in the IVR call tree? Say 'press 1 for password reset,' and then SN would pick up that call.
A: Yes, depending on the telephony setup, there are two common options:
- Global line with multiple departments, which may include IT, Customer Service, Facilities, Finance, etc. For this use case, keep the CCaaS provider's IVR tree, and have the defined option route to ServiceNow Voice.
- A dedicated Global IT or Global HR line - Remove the IVR tree and go directly to Now Assist in Voice
CONTACT CENTER (CCaaS)
Q: What Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) providers are supported by Now Assist for Voice?
A: Genesys Cloud and Twilio. Other providers (including 3CLogic, Amazon Connect, and Five 9) are planned for future releases.
Q: How are CCaaS Providers integrated with ServiceNow?
A: Configuration begins within the Assistant Designer on the Now Platform and concludes within the Contact Center Application. See the ‘Integrating voice service with CCaaS providers’ Product Documentation for details
Still have questions? Check out the Full AI Voice Agents FAQ Below
