Telepath
Bring Your Own Agent. Bring Your Own Carrier. We provide the ultra-low latency bridge.
The "awkward pause" kills voice conversations. Your user asks a question. There's half a second where nothing happens. They start talking again. Now you have two streams of audio trying to sync. The agent sounds confused.
Telepath eliminates that pause. Our adaptive clean signal protocols and optimized packet routing shave roughly 400ms off standard carrier integrations. Your agent feels present, not processed.
But latency isn't just about mid-conversation turns. The first impression matters most—when the user picks up and expects an instant response. Our persistent connection architecture establishes sessions 2.9x faster and delivers the first AI response 6.6x faster than direct carrier integrations. See the data →
We consistently beat industry benchmarks. See why standard SIP stacks can't compete.
| Stage | Standard Stack | Telepath Stack | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics (Round-trip signal) | 50ms | 50ms | — |
| VAD ("Did they stop?") | ~800ms | 300ms | ~400ms |
| Processing (Routing, Buffering) | 100ms | < 1ms | ~50ms |
| AI Turn (Thinking + TTS) | Variable | Variable | — |
| TOTAL | ~950ms+ | ~350ms+ | ~450ms saved |
Key insight: Telepath's Clean Signal Protocol adaptively handles breaks in the user's speech. This enables Telepath to help route calls from carriers to AI Voice Agents while working in conjunction with VAD, not in opposition to it. Standard gateways pass background noise that confuses AI VADs, adding ~400ms of hesitation.
In a controlled A/B test (us-east-1), Telepath achieved even better results than the theoretical model:
| Metric | Direct Carrier | Telepath | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session Establishment | 1,812 ms | 622 ms | 2.9x faster |
| First Turn Latency | 829 ms | 124 ms | 6.6x faster |
These results are from our controlled A/B test with geographic parity. See the full Case Study →
You probably already have a SIP trunk with Twilio, Telnyx, or Bandwidth. Switching carriers is a nightmare. Port your numbers, renegotiate contracts, update routing tables everywhere. You don't have time for that.
Telepath acts as the high-speed bridge between your existing carrier and your AI logic. No porting numbers. No contract breaking. No rip-and-replace.
You keep your carrier relationship, your pricing, your stability. You just get better performance on top.
We don't hide the SIP headers. Need to pass a custom X-Customer-ID from the PSTN directly to your LLM context? We pass it through. Need to fork audio for a "Manager Listen-In" mode? One API call. Need to implement custom VAD logic? You have full access to the audio stream.
This is infrastructure. Get out of the way and let us handle the hard parts while you handle the smart parts.
You're a founder or PM at an AI startup building voice agents. You're not interested in telecom. You're interested in shipping. You need a SIP bridge that doesn't become a six-month engineering project.
One API call. That's it.
// Create a Telepath Connection { "sip_username": "your-telepath-sip-trunk", "provider_numbers": "+12135551212, +12135551213...", "provider": "elevenlabs", "provider_credential": "sk-...", "webhook_url": "https://api.yourapp.com/webhooks" }
Stop worrying about the network stack. Start shipping voice AI that doesn't sound robotic.