Show HN: Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX

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hkjarral

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The project support several full providers openai, gemini, grok, elevenlabs out of the box and also provides options to build custom pipelines by choosing different stt tts and llm.It also supports full local agent if you have a GPU with 25GB RAM which enables realtime conversation along with tool calling.I started this as a hobby project last year when I started exploring voice agents and every saw every Saas tried to lock you in their eco system.

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Since then project has taken off and a lot of asterisk people started using it due to ease of setup and wide range of providers and flexibility.Core is MIT: https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk Free and open source forever.No install Mock UI us hosted at:...

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We build interactive avatars and just shipped our latest model, cara-4.

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This is the first avatar model which can naturally shift emotions and expressions during the conversation; a feature we're calling "Director Notes".

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The way it works is relatively simple: we have an LLM provide cues such as [laughter], [sad], [warm] interleaved with the speech, which we then condition our animation model with.

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To test it out, we commissioned a blind study from Mabyduck.com with 200 participants, 1,600 rated live interactions across six criteria.

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Cara-4 ranked first overall and was preferred head-to-head over each competitor on overall experience, lip-sync, visual quality and "naturalness".

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