Building Tel-Agent in the open
Notes from building an open-source AI phone assistant - the calls, the protocols, and what broke.
The GDPR case for a self-hosted AI phone assistant
Every hosted voice vendor is another processor and another transfer out of the EU. Running the assistant on your own machine removes both from the picture.
What Tel-Agent is, and what it is not yet
An open-source AI phone assistant at Milestone 0 of 12 - what exists today, and what does not.
The 800ms budget a spoken answer has to fit into
Under 800ms from the end of your sentence to the first word back. Here is where every millisecond goes, and why the first version rents most of them.