Hi everyone, Nice to meet everyone, I'm looking forward to learning more about building and selling ai voice agents for small business owners in health and wellness niche. Just starting to get into it, but I've been playing around with ai automation using n8n for the past year.

Hey everyone — I'm Arpan, voice AI infrastructure engineer based in India. 28 years shipping production systems. I build the layer most people don't touch — self-hosted LiveKit (not Cloud), SIP trunking, TTS/STT on bare-metal GPUs, telephony routing, failover, the works. When a VAPI project hits cost or scale limits, that's usually where I come in. What's running in production right now: — Enterprise voice system doing 300K+ calls/day, self-hosted telephony with SIP trunk integration — Taxi dispatch: 10K+ daily calls, 99.3% success rate, 75ms address lookups, multi-language — Self-hosted TTS across 10 GPU instances, 1.13M+ clips processed, cut a client's annual cost from $283K to $24K — Real-time video avatar with controllable facial expressions (eyebrows, blinks, pupil movement) for a healthcare deployment I've been running self-hosted LiveKit in production for a while now so happy to share what I've learned about the tradeoffs vs VAPI/Retell, especially around cost, latency, and scaling past the demo stage. Looking forward to the conversations here.

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When you get your clients how do you handle the phone number? As in do you get them a new one on twilio? Or they keep their original number and you set it up to forward to a twilio number or do get them a new number on twilio and they keep their original as the ‘transfer’ number if the ai hallucinates or the customer asks to speak to a human?

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