I recently bought a mint-condition Alf phone, in the shape of Gordon Shumway of TV's "Alf", out of the back of an old auto shop in the south suburbs of Chicago, and naturally did the most obvious thing, which was to make a Gordon Shumway phone that has conversations in the voice of Gordon Shumway (sampled from Youtube and synthesized with ElevenLabs). I use https://github.com/etalab-ia/faster-whisper-server (I think?) as the Whisper backend. It's fine! Asterix feeds me WAV files, an ASI program feeds them to Whisper (running locally as a server) and does audio synthesis with the ElevenLabs API. Took like 2 hours.