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Re:Show HN: Phone Number for AI Agents Like Hermes and OpenClaw by sameersri2004 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:27PM (#48612688)
It's not Twilio; it's a combination of Telnyx and Signal wire and a link trip not using their TTS & STT. I'm using a combination of Cartesia and the self-hosted misolabs for TTS. I'm using Deepgram and in some cases Sarvam as well. It's a combination of all these things.

As far as the question is why I used Telnyx and SignalWire, it's because of the cost and the latency thing. The Twilio API is not really fast as far as I've used it. I don't know about other people. I didn't find anything as such on the internet but I've used and tested both Telnyx and SignalWire. The best one is literally Telnyx but it is costly compared to SignalWire. In order to make a profit on that I had to use a combination of both.

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Re:Show HN: Phone Number for AI Agents Like Hermes and OpenClaw by anandukch on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:04AM (#48627667)
Ok got it. Just curious, since you mentioned you are using multiple tools or combination of two or more. How are you handling the decision like which one to choose at a particular time
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Re:Show HN: Phone Number for AI Agents Like Hermes and OpenClaw by sameersri2004 on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:38AM (#48630796)
Depends on the country of origin of the user and also most of the tools are not, either or, they are chained together like TTS and STT is being used always with an LLM layer and signalwire when the user is in US or Canada and telnyx for other countries(Under testing)..
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