AI voice agents on a 917 New York number
Bring a 917 number you already own from Twilio, Plivo or Vonage, and connect it to an agent over SIP.
New York City, where every 917 number rings.
What a 917 number actually is
The 917 area code covers all five boroughs of New York City. It went into service in 1992, originally for mobile phones and pagers across the whole city rather than for one borough, which is why it overlaps every other New York code.
A call from a 917 number is most likely a mobile phone anywhere in New York City. Because 917 spans all five boroughs, it doesn't narrow down where the caller is.
Connecting an agent to your 917 number
Three steps in the console. Pick a step to see the screen you'll be working in.
01
Import over SIP
Point your Twilio, Plivo or Vonage trunk at Smallest AI, or rent a US number in the console.
02
Bind it to agent
Assign the number, pick a voice, write the prompt, and switch on inbound calls.
03
Take and place calls
Inbound answering plus outbound calls over telephony, webcall or chat.
What runs on the call
Speech recognition, speech synthesis and orchestration are all built here rather than assembled from third-party APIs, which is why the latency and audio-format numbers below are ours to quote.
~200 ms
Lightning TTS latency
Time to first byte, published at docs.smallest.ai.
~5.4%
Average WER, English
Pulse Pro, tied 2nd on the public Open ASR Leaderboard.
44.1 kHz
Telephony-ready audio
µ-law, A-law, PCM, MP3 and WAV, with no transcode step.
16
Languages, switchable mid-sentence
A caller can open in English and continue in Hindi without the agent losing the thread.
Other codes covering New York City
All four overlay the same geography. Any of them reads as a local Manhattan number to the person receiving the call.
Frequently
asked questions
Is 917 a real area code?
Is a call from a 917 number a scam?
Can I use a 917 number if I'm not in New York?
Which carriers can I import a 917 number from?
Is 917 a Manhattan code or an outer-borough code?
Should I use a 917 number or toll-free?