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    openai/openai-realtime-twilio-demo

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    TypeScript
    MIT
    535 stars
    179 forks
    535 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 6, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 2 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 66% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Combines OpenAI's Realtime API with Twilio to create an AI-powered phone calling assistant that streams and transcribes calls in real time.
    • Enables seamless bi-directional streaming between Twilio calls and OpenAI's API, allowing live interaction and transcription with minimal setup.
    • Use for building interactive AI call assistants that transcribe and respond to phone conversations in real time.
    • Use for prototyping voice-enabled customer support bots that integrate AI-driven responses over phone calls.
    • Use for developing real-time call monitoring dashboards that display live transcripts and call metadata via a web frontend.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present

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    • Warning: No commits in over a year (last push Dec 2024).
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    From the README

    Combine OpenAI's Realtime API and Twilio's phone calling capability to build an AI calling assistant.

    Make sure all vars in webapp/.env and websocket-server/.env are set correctly. See full setup section for more.

    This repo implements a phone calling assistant with the Realtime API and Twilio, and had two main parts: the webapp, and the websocket-server.

    Twilio uses TwiML (a form of XML) to specify how to handle a phone call. When a call comes in we tell Twilio to start a bi-directional stream to our backend, where we forward messages between the call and the Realtime API. ({{WS_URL}} is replaced with our websocket endpoint.)

    We use ngrok to make our server reachable by Twilio.

    Excerpt from the openai/openai-realtime-twilio-demo README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    179-4

    Open issues

    11-1

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