Adwika Taware@adwikataware

WingMan is an AI-powered phone proxy that handles calls you don't want to make. Built for the IBM Bob Hackathon 2026, it combines real-time voice AI with a natural conversational interface to remove the anxiety and friction from everyday phone calls. How it works: You open AutoPilot mode and speak to WingMan — tell it who to call and what message to deliver. WingMan confirms it understood, then makes the call autonomously. It delivers your message, handles follow-up questions from the recipient using contextual AI reasoning, and keeps the conversation going until the other person is satisfied. When the call ends, you get a WhatsApp summary with what was said, any questions the recipient asked, and action items for you. WingMan has three modes. AutoPilot makes calls for you completely hands-free. CoPilot listens to your own calls in real time and suggests responses in three tones — confident, diplomatic, and detailed — so you always know what to say. Coach analyzes your calls after they end and gives you a confidence score, highlights what went well, and tells you how to improve. The technical pipeline streams audio bidirectionally through Twilio Media Streams over WebSocket, transcribes caller speech in real time using Deepgram Nova-2, generates responses via Groq LLaMA 3.1, synthesizes speech using Deepgram Aura TTS, and delivers audio back to the caller in 160-byte chunks to avoid buffer stalls. The entire round-trip latency is under 2 seconds. Built with IBM Bob IDE as a core development partner across 7 documented sessions covering architecture, code review, test generation, feature implementation, and demo preparation.

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