Fin Voice answers every call instantly, uses your existing knowledge base to resolve questions, and when human help is needed, seamlessly hands off the call to the right agent with full context. Every call reflects your brand, runs 24/7, and scales without adding headcount.
Fin Voice is powered by Apex Flash, our latest model built for latency-sensitive tasks, which delivers faster, more natural conversations. Apex Flash is automatically applied to existing Fin Voice customers in English-language, US-hosted workspaces. This guide explains how to test Fin in your browser and deploy it to a live phone number.
Fin Voice availability: Fin Voice is currently limited to select customers partnered with our Sales team. If you’d like to learn more about pricing, please reach out to your account manager. We look forward to making Fin Voice more widely available soon.
How do I use Fin Voice?
We recommend following these steps:
Prepare your content – Add content to Fin.
Test Fin Voice – Use the web app to simulate voice calls and hear how Fin responds. This gives you a clear idea of how Fin works with your support content and handles customer questions.
Deploy – Once you’re confident, go to the Deploy page and assign Fin to a phone number (main line or test line). Configure Fin’s behavior, active hours, and escalation rules.
Monitor – View Fin phone conversations, including transcripts and outcomes.
Analyze – Check performance metrics like resolution rate, involvement, and call duration in your Custom Report.
Prepare your content
To set up your content for Fin you can follow the guide here: Add your support content for Fin.
Test Fin Voice
The Voice Testing tab lets you simulate calls in‑browser before any real customers are involved.
What you can do
Hear Fin answer using your own support content and check accuracy.
Switch voices to choose the voice that fits your brand.
Preview greetings & escalation rules exactly as callers would hear them.
Run typical scenarios using preconfigured scripts.
Load saved configurations from the Set Fin Live tab to test advanced setups.
Review knowledge sources – see the exact articles Fin referenced during the call, shown as titles with direct links in the transcript.
How to run a test session
Click Test.
Wait for Fin to greet you, then start speaking.
If prompted, grant your browser microphone permission.
Change voice or greeting on the fly
Click Settings (top right).
Select a voice from the list.
Update the language you want to use - English, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese are supported. Edit the greeting copy (you can set different greetings for inside office vs. outside office hours).
Test with saved configurations
If you’ve created multiple voice configurations under Set Fin Live, use the ▼ next to Test to select one and run it here.
Deploy Fin Voice
When you’re ready, move Fin from testing to a live phone line from Deploy > Phone > Set Fin Live. This is the only way to deploy Fin Voice - it’s not possible to add ‘Fin Voice’ to your existing workflows.
Deploying moves Fin from the sandbox to a real phone line. Work through the settings from top to bottom.
Add a new line
First you will need to connect your phone number by clicking + New line.
Give this line a name and select where you will forward calls from:
All numbers in your workspace appear in the list in the Set Fin live section. Click the edit icon to start configuring the experience.
Note: A phone number will only appear in Set Fin live section once you have purchased a number.
Office hours
Decide when Fin should answer:
Office hours
Outside office hours
24/7
Fin introduces itself
Pick your preferred voice (preview voices in Voice Testing).
Specify your default language per phone line. Currently supported languages are English and Spanish.
Write greetings for in‑office and out‑of‑office hours.
Using support content
Fin automatically uses your enabled support content and audience rules.
When to escalate
Set up and enable specific escalation guidance for how Fin handles phone conversations.
Categorize the issue
Optionally enable AI categories for topic‑based routing.
Ask for rating
Choose whether customers are asked to rate their phone experience before the Fin call ends (only when the call is not handed over). Customers can rate their call from 1 to 5 using their phone keypad.
Smart Routing
Smart Routing directs callers to the right team or workflow based on what they're actually saying, rather than relying on rigid IVR menu options. Instead of requiring callers to navigate numbered prompts, Fin interprets their intent in natural language and routes them accordingly.
To configure Smart Routing, navigate to Deploy > Phone > Set Fin Live and open the routing settings for your line.
If Fin can't resolve the conversation
Configure separate behaviors for inside and outside office hours.
Option | Caller experience | When to use |
Offer a callback | Fin offers a callback and records a message | Out‑of‑hours |
Stay on the call | Fin explains no one is available and shares other contact options | Teams without live phone support |
Handover to a Workflow | Will trigger a Workflow in the inbox | Teams who'd like a more customizable flow |
Transfer to a teammate | Call will be routed to a human teammate | When you want to loop in a teammate as soon as possible. |
Forward the call | The call will be forwarded to the specified phone number | Suitable for 3rd party telephony system integrations |
Note: When integrating with an External Provider, the only handover options are Forward the call, Stay on the call or Offer a callback.
If customer hangs up
If Fin resolves the call, decide whether to auto‑close or assign to a QA Inbox to review it.
Audience-specific content
You can restrict Fin’s answers to the right customers by scoping its knowledge to distinct audiences.
How to set it up
Create / edit an audience: Settings → Data → Audiences.
Add your phone number as one of the audience rules (e.g. Phone number is +1 415‑555‑0123).
Add that audience to relevant support content.
Fin Voice on that line will now quote only the audience targeted content.
Caller‑based targeting
When an inbound phone number matches an existing user or lead, any audience rules tied to that contact automatically apply—no extra setup required.
Customize Fin Voice behavior with Guidance
You can customize Fin's behavior for phone calls using Guidance to ensure it aligns with your brand's voice and operational policies. Guidance for Fin Voice functions similarly to guidance for chat and email but is configured in a separate Voice tab.
To add guidance, navigate to Train > Guidance and select the Voice tab. From here, you can create customized guidance for:
Communication style: Define the specific vocabulary and terms Fin should use.
Context and clarification: Create rules for the follow-up questions Fin should ask to better understand a customer's issue.
Handover and escalation: Set up rules for when Fin should route a call directly to your team.
Note: Guidance configured in the Voice tab only applies to Fin Voice. Other Guidance types are found in the chat and email tab.
You can also view a list of all voice conversations where a specific guidance entry was used, helping you to refine its performance over time.
Configure pronunciation rules
To ensure Fin speaks your brand names, technical terms, and acronyms correctly, you can set up custom pronunciation rules. These rules apply automatically across all voice conversations.
How to add a rule:
Navigate to Fin AI Agent > Settings > Pronunciation Rules.
Click Add rule and enter the term.
Choose one of three pronunciation methods:
Phonetic spelling (Recommended): Spell the word exactly how it sounds (e.g., "oh-auth").
IPA: Use precise International Phonetic Alphabet notation.
CMU: Use the phoneme-based format.
(Optional) Use Language-specific overrides for multilingual deployments.
Preview the rule with audio playback before saving.
Why use this? Mispronouncing critical terms like your company name is a "signal" to callers that they are speaking to an AI, which can undermine credibility and increase human escalations.
Connect Fin Voice to your systems to take action
Voice Procedures allow Fin Voice to take action during a call by connecting directly to your systems via API — enabling Fin to fully resolve complex queries like processing refunds or credits, updating subscriptions, editing orders, or completing other multi-step workflows. All of this happens in real time, over the phone, without placing the caller on hold or transferring them.
Note: Voice Procedures are currently available in closed beta. If you're interested in enabling Voice Procedures or learning more, please reach out to your Account Manager, who can share next steps and eligibility details.
Testing your Voice Procedures with Simulations
You can test Voice Procedures before and after going live using Simulations - without needing to make real calls.
Define your scenarios, user attributes, and success criteria.
Run the simulation — Fin replicates the full interaction end-to-end.
Review the pass/fail results and trace what happened in the conversation history.
Refine and rerun until the procedure is ready to launch.
Monitor Fin Voice
Every Fin‑handled call appears in Analyze > Conversations, including:
Call recording
Call transcript – full speech‑to‑text
AI summary – quick recap of what happened on the call with Fin
Call outcome
Knowledge sources – article titles and direct links to the content Fin referenced when answering the caller's questions
These details give your team immediate insight into how Fin performed and what the caller needed.
Conversation parts
Fin Voice calls are stored in the same Conversation Parts format as chat.
Voice conversation parts appear in the inbox in real time, so teammates can open a conversation while Fin is still on a call and watch messages appear as they’re spoken.
Customer turns are marked with a phone icon, and call recordings play inline from the call summary. The same conversation view is available in Analyze and Reporting.
Note: Individual conversation parts are only created for calls with Fin Voice. Calls handled by human teammates don't generate them.
Knowledge sources
After a call ends, the transcript includes the specific knowledge base articles Fin referenced during that conversation — shown as article titles with direct links.
Knowledge sources are visible in two places:
Voice testing playground — after each test call in Deploy > Phone > Voice testing.
Inbox — after a real customer call ends, in the conversation transcript.
Use knowledge sources to:
Verify answers — confirm Fin pulled from the right sources for the right reasons.
Debug faster — trace any unexpected answer straight back to the article it came from.
Improve your knowledge base — spot gaps or outdated content based on real call data.
Build trust — full transparency into how Fin handles every call.
Analyze Fin Voice
Create reports
Go to Analyze > Custom Report and filter by Channel = Phone call. All metrics below apply only to calls made on or after 11 June 2025.
Key attributes
Attribute | Why it matters | Filter value |
Fin involved | Limits results to AI‑handled calls | TRUE |
Initial channel | Ensures you’re looking at phone traffic only | Phone call |
Fin AI Agent Resolution State (post‑11 June) | How the call ended from the caller’s perspective | Assumed Resolution, Confirmed Resolution, Routed to team Unknown/No value |
Last Inbound Call State | Technical state regardless of Fin; use for abandon / answered checks | e.g. Abandoned in routing/Answered |
Note: Fin is counted as involved in a phone call only when the call passes through a Let Fin Voice handle step in a phone workflow, or is handled directly by a Fin Voice deployment. Adding IVR steps, phone menu options, or reply buttons to a workflow does not count as Fin involvement on its own — only calls that reach Fin will appear with Fin involved = TRUE in your reports.
Resolution states explained
Assumed resolution – Caller hung up after receiving an answer.
Confirmed resolution – Caller explicitly said they were all set, then hung up.
Routed to team – Caller asked to speak to a human.
Unknown/no value: Caller hung up without getting an answer/call is ongoing/calls not involving Fin
Answered by Fin appears in Last Inbound Call State for all calls Fin handled but did not route to a teammate (e.g. when using Stay on the call escalation mode).
Headline metrics
Metric | Formula | Notes |
Resolution rate | Assumed + Confirmed | Measures self‑service success |
Deflection % | 100 − Routed to team | Share of calls never passed to humans |
Abandoned % | Deflection − Resolution | Currently inaccurate for phone. |
Avg. handle time | Seconds Fin was on the call | Lower = faster answers |
Use Insights
In addition to the Fin AI Agent report, you can analyze your call data within Analyze to get a deeper understanding of performance and conversation topics.
Performance dashboard
Your Fin Voice calls are included in the Performance dashboard. To see data exclusively for your phone channel, you can apply a filter for Channel is Phone call.
Topics Explorer
The transcripts from your Fin Voice calls are used to automatically generate topics in Topics Explorer. This helps you easily spot trends and identify areas where your support content or guidance can be improved.
Note: CX Score is not yet available for phone calls within Insights or Reporting. You may see a CX score applied if a conversation started on the phone but was resolved on a different channel, like chat or email.
Telephony integrations
You can connect Fin Voice with a wide range of third-party telephony systems. This allows you to use Fin Voice's powerful conversational AI while keeping your existing phone provider.
Supported platforms include:
AWS Connect
Talkdesk
CXOne
Aircall
Dialpad
Twilio Flex
Zoom Phone
Genesys
Five9
and others
There are two primary methods for integrating your system with Fin Voice: using a standard phone number (PSTN) or using a SIP address.
Integrate Fin Voice to an external phone provider (PSTN)
This guide will show you how to connect an external phone line, known as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) line, to Fin.
This method allows you to forward incoming calls from your current provider directly to Fin for automated handling. The connection works both ways—if a customer needs to speak to a person, Fin can seamlessly escalate the call back to your team on your existing telephony system.
Before you start, you'll need an active phone number in your third-party telephony system (e.g., Amazon Connect) that currently receives your customer calls.
Create a new line
Your first step is to create a new line in your Fin workspace. This process generates a unique phone number that you'll use to forward calls from your provider.
From your Fin workspace, navigate to Deploy > Phone > Set Fin Live.
Click + New line.
In the "New line" window, fill out the following details:
Give this line a name: Choose a name for your internal reference, like "Main Support Line" or "Sales Inquiries".
Where will you forward calls from: Select From a phone number (PSTN).
What third party will you forward calls from?: Choose Amazon Connect if that's your provider. If you use any other service, select Other.
Click Next.
You will now be prompted to purchase a new phone number. Confirm your choice to purchase the number. This number is now assigned to your new Fin Voice line.
You'll know the setup is successful when you see your new phone number displayed in your Fin Voice settings. Be sure to copy this number for the next part of the process.
Set up call forwarding in your external system
Now, you’ll need to configure your current phone provider to redirect incoming calls to the number you just acquired.
Log in to your account with your third-party phone provider.
Navigate to the settings for the specific phone number your customers call.
Locate the "Call Forwarding," "Call Routing," or a similarly named feature.
In the destination or forwarding field, paste the new phone number you copied from above.
Save your changes.
Note: The user interface and terminology can differ between providers. If you can't find the call forwarding settings, please check your provider's help documentation. Remember that some providers may apply charges for call forwarding.
Test your connection
Let’s make sure everything is flowing correctly with a quick test call.
From a separate phone, dial your main public-facing phone number (the one you just set up forwarding for).
The call should be automatically routed to Fin.
Fin Voice should answer the call.
If Fin answers, your connection is successful. Fin is now ready to handle incoming calls on that line.
Forward Fin Voice calls to your system
In your own telephony system, create a dedicated phone number or queue specifically for escalations from Fin Voice. This ensures these calls are routed to the correct team.
In your Fin workspace, go to Deploy > Phone > Set Fin Live and configure call forwarding to send escalated calls to the dedicated number in your telephony system.
Integrating with SIP
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an alternative method for forwarding calls over the internet instead of through traditional phone networks.
Create a new line
Your first step is to create a new line in your Fin workspace. This process generates a unique phone number that you'll use to forward calls from your provider.
In your Fin workspace, navigate to the Deploy > Phone > Set Fin Live.
Click + New line.
In the "New line" window, fill out the following details:
Give this line a name: Choose a name for your internal reference, like "Main Support Line" or "Sales Inquiries".
Where will you forward calls from: Select From a SIP (VoIP). This will generate a unique SIP URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) for Fin Voice.
What third party will you forward calls from?: Choose Amazon Connect if that's your provider. If you use any other service, select Other.
Click Next.
You will now be prompted to purchase a new phone number. Confirm your choice to purchase the number. This number is now assigned to your new Fin Voice line.
You'll know the setup is successful when you see your new phone number displayed in your Fin Voice settings. Be sure to copy this number for the next part of the process.
Set up call forwarding in your external system
Now, you’ll need to configure your current phone provider to redirect incoming calls to the number you just acquired.
Log in to your account with your third-party telephony.
Navigate to the settings for the specific phone number your customers call.
Locate the "Call Forwarding," "Call Routing," or a similarly named feature.
In the destination or forwarding field, paste the new phone number you copied from above.
Save your changes.
Note: The user interface and terminology can differ between providers. If you can't find the call forwarding settings, please check your provider's help documentation. Remember that some providers may apply charges for call forwarding.
Test your connection
Let’s make sure everything is flowing correctly with a quick test call.
From a separate phone, dial your main public-facing phone number (the one you just set up forwarding for).
The call should be automatically routed to Fin.
Fin Voice should answer the call.
If Fin answers, your connection is successful. Fin is now ready to handle incoming calls on that line.
Forward Fin Voice calls to your system
In your own telephony system, create a dedicated queue for Fin Voice escalations and get its corresponding SIP URI. This ensures these calls are routed to the correct team.
In your Fin workspace, go to Deploy > Phone > Set Fin Live and configure call forwarding to send escalated calls to the SIP URI of the dedicated queue in your system.
Note: If you need help with a SIP integration or would like to explore an API integration, please reach out to your relationship manager to arrange time with our product team.
FAQs
Can I get a demo of Fin Voice?
Can I get a demo of Fin Voice?
Yes, you can watch Fin Voice in action and use the live interactive demo on fin.ai/voice 😃
Can I test Voice Procedures in the Voice Testing Playground?
Can I test Voice Procedures in the Voice Testing Playground?
Yes. If you have access to Voice Procedures, you can test them in the Voice Testing Playground. You can also use Simulations — found in the Procedure editor — to test your flows before and after going live without needing to make real calls. If you're interested in enabling Voice Procedures, please reach out to your Account Manager.
Does the Voice Testing Playground respect audience rules?
Does the Voice Testing Playground respect audience rules?
No. The Voice Testing Playground intentionally pulls all available content from your knowledge base regardless of any audience rules you've configured. This is by design — it lets you test Fin's responses across your full content library without needing to match a specific audience.
Note: This differs from live call behavior, where audience rules are enforced and Fin only uses content that matches the caller's audience. Results in the Playground may therefore include answers from content that would not be available to all callers in production.
Can I test Fin Voice in the Workflow builder Preview?
Can I test Fin Voice in the Workflow builder Preview?
No, the preview option is not available for workflows using the "When customer calls" trigger. To test how Fin Voice handles calls, use the Voice Testing Playground in Fin AI Agent > Deploy > Phone > Voice testing. This lets you simulate calls in-browser and hear how Fin responds before deploying to a live phone line.
How do you define Fin Voice Outcome?
How do you define Fin Voice Outcome?
A Fin Voice Outcome is defined as a person asking a question and receiving at least 1 answer (based on your knowledge base content) from Fin and then disconnecting from the call or the call is disconnected for any reason.
If a caller abandons the call while Fin is transferring, does that count as an outcome?
If a caller abandons the call while Fin is transferring, does that count as an outcome?
No, if a call is abandoned while it's being transferred or forwarded to your team, this does not count as an outcome.
How do you charge for Fin Voice?
How do you charge for Fin Voice?
Contact your account owner to learn more about pricing. Once agreed, Fin Voice pricing will be set out in your Order Form with Fin.
What happens if a customer speaks while Fin is talking?
What happens if a customer speaks while Fin is talking?
If a customer speaks while Fin is mid-response, Fin will stop talking and listen and it won't talk over the customer. This is expected behavior.
Does Fin Voice always try to gather more information before escalating to a teammate?
Does Fin Voice always try to gather more information before escalating to a teammate?
It depends on whether escalation guidance has been configured.
With escalation guidance set, Fin will escalate immediately when the guidance conditions are met.
Without escalation guidance, Fin may first ask a clarifying question to understand what the caller needs — so it can route them to the right team and provide relevant context to the agent receiving the handover.
This behavior is not deterministic: Fin may sometimes escalate straight away, and other times ask a clarifying question first. If the caller insists on speaking with a human, Fin will proceed with the escalation.
Why does Fin respond differently over phone than over chat?
Why does Fin respond differently over phone than over chat?
Fin over Phone (Fin Voice) is intentionally more conversational than Fin over chat — and that's by design, not a defect.
On a phone call, customers expect a natural back-and-forth exchange. Fin Voice asks clarifying questions, confirms understanding, and works through issues step by step, rather than delivering a single comprehensive answer. Chat, by contrast, suits concise, self-contained responses that customers can read at their own pace.
Can I customize the handover message in a Fin Voice workflow deployment?
Can I customize the handover message in a Fin Voice workflow deployment?
Yes, the handover message (e.g. "Please hold while we transfer you to an agent") is fully customizable in both simple and workflow deployments.
Simple deploy: Go to Deploy > Phone > Set Fin Live, scroll to the escalation options, and find the Handover message configuration dropdown to edit the message Fin speaks before transferring the call.
Workflow deploy: Open your phone workflow, click the Let Fin Voice handle step to open the settings panel, and find the Handover message configuration dropdown. Customise the message Fin will speak before handing over the call, then click Done.
Can I stop Fin from saying phrases like "Let me look into that for you" before answering?
Can I stop Fin from saying phrases like "Let me look into that for you" before answering?
No. Before generating each answer, Fin Voice sends a brief acknowledgement phrase (such as "Let me look into that for you") to bridge the latency while it searches your knowledge base. This is intentional: it replaces silence with a natural-sounding response while Fin processes the caller's question.
Note: Guidance cannot suppress this phrase. Guidance applies to Fin’s answer content only — the acknowledgement is sent before Fin’s answer is generated, so it is outside the scope of guidance entirely. This behavior is not currently configurable.
What can Fin Voice do during a call?
What can Fin Voice do during a call?
Complex query handling via Procedures - Fin can follow multi-step workflows, e.g. processing refunds, updating subscriptions, editing orders, in real time without placing the caller on hold.
Real-time tool calling - Fin connects to your systems and takes action mid-call.
Data connector and API support - integrate with your backend to look up and act on customer data.
Actions and thinking log - full visibility into what Fin did and why during each call.
What call quality features does Fin Voice include?
What call quality features does Fin Voice include?
Brand term pronunciation - teach Fin how to say your company name, product names, and technical terms.
Background noise reduction — ambient noise is filtered to prevent false interruptions.
Wide variety of voices and accents to match your brand.
Adapts to caller speech patterns — Fin adjusts dynamically to each caller.
Accurate intent detection — better understanding of what callers are asking, even with ambiguous phrasing.
What insights and reporting does Fin Voice include?
What insights and reporting does Fin Voice include?
Real-time topic insights - see what callers are asking about as calls come in.
One-click recommendations - Fin surfaces suggested improvements based on call data.
Automated feedback collection - gather caller feedback without manual setup.
What telephony systems does Fin Voice integrate with?
What telephony systems does Fin Voice integrate with?
Fin Voice integrates with a wide range of third-party telephony providers, including Talkdesk, Amazon Connect, Zoom, Aircall, CXOne, Five9, and more.
For setup instructions, see our telephony integrations.
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