It started with a telephone. For a small business I had built an AI receptionist that answers calls, answers questions and suggests appointments. Speech recognition (Parakeet), the voice (a cloned Qwen3-TTS model) and the brain (Claude through Claude Code) all run on my Mac, not in a cloud spee...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/mikweb2025design/an-ai-assistant-for-your-own-website-chat-voice-calls-and-appointments-hosted-on-my-own-mac-o3a)