oxnw/ai-phone

A SIP phone daemon with local speech and language models on Apple Silicon.

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ai-phone An AI phone agent that runs on your computer. Documentation · Architecture · AGPL-3.0 Setup lets you choose incoming calls, outgoing calls, or both, then configures the model, line and voice. It recommends a local model based on detected RAM and downloads the required weights. Use uv run ai-phone setup --plain for plain prompts. The current speech backends use MLX on Apple Silicon, even when a cloud model handles the conversation. Supporting Linux or Windows would require different speech backends and changes to installation and platform integration. The platform requirement applies to the computer running ai-phone; callers can use any phone or SIP client. Start the daemon after setup: Keep it running while you want to receive calls. For outgoing calls only, start it when needed and stop it with Ctrl-C afterward. Setup does not install a background service. From another terminal in the repo, give the phone agent…

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A SIP phone daemon with local speech and language models on Apple Silicon.

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oxnw
Primary language
Python
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372
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61
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AGPL-3.0
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Created
2026-10-27T19:17:56.000Z
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