Deploy a self-hosted phone-call agent for Asterisk and FreePBX with AVA

Bring up a self-hosted voice agent that answers, routes, or transfers live calls through Asterisk or FreePBX with a PBX-native workflow.

Prerequisites

Docker Compose, Asterisk or FreePBX environment, telephony configuration, STT/LLM/TTS provider credentials

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• git clone https://github.com/hkjarral/Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent.git
• docker compose -p asterisk-ai-voice-agent up -d --build --force-recreate admin_ui
• docker compose -p asterisk-ai-voice-agent up -d --build ai_engine
• docker compose -p asterisk-ai-voice-agent logs ai_engine | tail -20

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

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• GPU users: If you have an NVIDIA GPU for local AI inference, see docs/LOCAL_ONLY_SETUP.md for the GPU compose overlay (docker-compose.gpu.yml) before building.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Quick Start • Features • Roadmap • Demo • Docs • Community

• 🚀 Quick Start

• 1. Run Pre-flight Check (Required)

• Source: https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange