A developer building a voice AI agent on LiveKit encountered and solved several implementation challenges with Twilio's Elastic SIP Trunk, including unreliable in-band DTMF detection, SIP 403...

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      "[post] Sharing a couple of concrete findings from building a voice AI agent on a Twilio Elastic SIP Trunk (origination + a credential-list trunk for outbound), in case they save someone else a debugging session.",
      "[post] DTMF: in-band tone detection (a Goertzel filter over the audio) and speech-to-text transcription both failed to read real keypad input reliably.",
      "[post] Geo permissions: a real outbound call attempt to a number outside Twilio's default allowed set failed with a SIP 403 until enabling that country under Voice > Settings > Geo permissions.",
      "[post] Twilio's media gateways are a separate published block (168.86.128.0/18, ports 10000-60000 UDP) from where signalling originates."
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