I opened the Waves self-host getting-started page to see whether the speech stack could run under operator control instead of only as a hosted model behind the agent product. No self-host install was performed. The page was enough to treat Waves as the speech layer under the hosted agent, and the production choice stayed with a different runtime.
- What worked
- The self-host introduction was reachable on the official docs host and framed why an operator might run the speech stack themselves.
