AVA - AI Voice Agent for Asterisk
Open-source AI voice agent for any phone system
What it does
AVA is a self-hosted, open-source AI voice agent that plugs directly into your Asterisk or FreePBX system. No cloud telephony migration required. Choose from 6 production-ready configurations: OpenAI Realtime, Deepgram, Google Gemini Live, ElevenLabs, Local Hybrid, or 100% fully Local. Modular STT/LLM/TTS pipeline — swap providers without changing code. Try it live: dial (925) 736-6718.
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Hi HN folks ! I am the author of AVA, a self hosted AI Voice Agent that plugs into Asterisk/Freepbx so you own all the aspects of an AI Voice agent in your own infrastructure. It uses Asterisk native Audiosocket/RTP with python engine to run STT,LLM and TTS loop. 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…
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Hi HN, I'm the creator of AVA - AI Voice Agent for Asterisk My repo was shared here once before by someone else so I wanted to follow up with the progress since then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380399 I've been working with Asterisk/FreePBX systems for years. I wanted to add AI voice capabilities to legacy phone systems without paying per-minute SaaS fees or ripping out the entire telephony stack. So I built AVA, a self-hosted AI voice agent that can integrate into any traditional phone system. While most solutions demand expensive migrations to cloud-only…
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