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    Spot on about the TTFT bottleneck. In the voice world, the "thinking" silence is what kills the illusion. At eboo.ai, we see this constantly—even with faster models, the orchestrat…

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    Nice—this is a very pragmatic “works with just TwiML” approach. A couple questions / thoughts from building voice agents in production: - How do you handle barge‑in / interruptions…

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    Comment #47120453

    Nice work — real-time voice plumbing always looks “simple” until you build it. A few things that helped us keep cost + complexity sane on similar voice-agent flows: - Treat the cal…

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    Comment #47059286

    This is a fascinating challenge. Security by obscurity (like SSH on a non-standard port) definitely has its place as a "first layer," but the prompt injection risk is much more str…

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    Comment #46987054

    Great work on open-sourcing the orchestrator. Full-duplex and barge-in are definitely the hardest parts to nail—getting those audio buffers cleared and the LLM stream killed in sub…

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    Comment #46986863

    This is a great observation. I'm the creator of OpenClaw, and you've hit on exactly why we recently introduced the "Gateway" architecture. The early versions were indeed "single pr…

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    Comment #46973085

    The setup is definitely the biggest hurdle right now. If you're not into the "science project" aspect of local runtimes, the move towards managed hosting or pre-configured hardware…

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    Comment #46973082

    OpenClaw is particularly useful for bridging this gap. Because it's a self-hosted agent with persistent memory (via MEMORY.md and AGENTS.md), it doesn't just "forget" the big pictu…

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    Comment #46957802

    Nice write-up — turn-taking is the whole game. Two things that bit us building production voice agents: 1) “Barge‑in” feels broken unless you can cancel TTS + LLM immediately (sub‑…

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    Comment #46957576

    FWIW the RAM number varies a lot depending on what you enable. If you’re mostly using OpenClaw as a “gateway + chat UI” that calls hosted model APIs, and you’re not running a headf…

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    Comment #46957567

    I’d treat agent “skills” the same way you’d treat running a random Docker image / npm package: the default stance should be distrust unless you’ve reviewed it or you trust the main…

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    Comment #46943546

    Yeah, if you’re comfortable wiring it together yourself, you can get ~80% of the way there with “LLM + SSH + a chat bridge”. The delta (when it’s working) is mostly plumbing + ergo…

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    This is neat. A couple test cases that have bitten us on real voice agent deployments (beyond noise/accents): - Barge-in / interruption: user starts talking mid-agent-sentence, age…

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    Comment #46911214

    Agreed that “unstructured arbitrary phone calls + arbitrary actions” is where things go to die. What does work in production (at least for SMB/customer-support style calls) is maki…

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