Show HN: Clawcall – give your self-hosted OpenClaw agent inbound phone calls (github.com)

A new TypeScript service called Clawcall has been launched, enabling self-hosted OpenClaw agents to receive inbound phone calls. This development addresses the significant demand from the OpenClaw community, which boasts 176,000 members and has expressed the desire for their AI agents to handle phone interactions. Clawcall operates by bridging Twilio voice calls directly to the OpenClaw gateway, allowing for a complete agent turn with every utterance. Unlike existing solutions that rely on real-time LLMs, Clawcall sends each caller's voice input straight to the gateway, running the agent's full tool-calling loop and synthesizing responses into speech for the caller. The significance of Clawcall lies in its architectural flexibility and the trade-offs it presents. It allows users to choose between higher fidelity agent responses during every interaction or lower latency through the native plugin approach. While Clawcall provides control over speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) providers, it does have increased latency compared to its real-time counterpart. This project could greatly enhance the functionality of AI agents in customer service, empowering businesses to leverage telephony capabilities that were previously challenging to integrate. With Clawcall, developers and businesses have a powerful tool for creating more interactive and responsive AI systems.