Showerthought: the $99 I dropped on a local AI voice model last month hurts, but it caught a client call I would've missed | AI Innovations - Free To Speak
Showerthought: the $99 I dropped on a local AI voice model last month hurts, but it caught a client call I would've missed
I run a small booking side gig and paid $99 for a self-hosted voice model to answer calls while I'm on the road. Setup took a whole afternoon and the first try sounded like a robot reading a menu, so I almost deleted the thing. Then last Tuesday it picked up a booking call while I was stuck in traffic on I-90 and saved me a $700 job. That one call paid for the whole thing, but the first script I wrote was flat out garbage and I nearly gave up on it. What's the cheapest AI tool you've tried that actually earned its keep, and where did it fall short?