{"slug": "open-source-ai-phone-assistant-call-chat", "title": "Open Source AI Phone Assistant | Call & Chat", "summary": "A developer has released Tel-Agent, an open-source AI phone assistant designed to handle calls and chats for small businesses. The project, available on GitHub under the AGPL license, focuses on keeping voice-agent round-trips under one second and supports features like barge-in and silence detection. The roadmap includes multi-language support, including Arabic.", "body_md": "Phones are still where real business happens. Missed calls are missed customers, and most small teams can't afford a 24/7 receptionist. So I've been building ** Tel-Agent** — an\n\n🔗 **Website:** [tel-agent.com](https://tel-agent.com)\n\n⭐ **GitHub repo:** [github.com/Dpro-at/Tel-Agent](https://github.com/Dpro-at/Tel-Agent)\n\nVoice AI is too important to be a black box. Your call data is sensitive — customer names, numbers, intents. With an open codebase:\n\nTel-Agent is released under **AGPL**, so improvements flow back to the community.\n\nThe pipeline is the classic voice-agent triangle, tuned for latency:\n\nThe hard part isn't any single step — it's keeping the round-trip under ~1 second so the caller never feels like they're talking to a robot on a delay. Interruption handling (\"barge-in\"), silence detection, and graceful fallbacks took more iteration than everything else combined.\n\nThe roadmap is public and moving: multi-language support (including Arabic — underserved in voice AI and personally important to me), deeper calendar integrations, and better analytics on call outcomes.\n\nIf you've ever wanted your business phone to just *handle it*, or you're curious how real-time voice agents are built — check out the repo, star it if you like the idea, open an issue, or just say hi in the discussions:\n\n👉 ** github.com/Dpro-at/Tel-Agent** ·\n\n**Every missed call is a missed opportunity. Now your phone can answer for itself.**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-source-ai-phone-assistant-call-chat", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/9mtm/open-source-ai-phone-assistant-call-chat-25oe", "published_at": "2026-08-28 05:11:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-28 05:48:40.635649+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Tel-Agent", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-source-ai-phone-assistant-call-chat", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-source-ai-phone-assistant-call-chat.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-source-ai-phone-assistant-call-chat.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/open-source-ai-phone-assistant-call-chat.jsonld"}}