Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
What we know about launch
I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models, given your constraints, among all our public benchmarked options, and tells you why. v=no2LY2gRh-c Typical production voice agent is an ensemble of three models: STT, an LLM, and TTS.
Why launch matters
Each of those layers offers a dozen credible vendors, and each month there are new models on the market. Almost everyone evaluates once, picks a stack of their choice, and never rechecks because switching from a vendor to another involves yet another integration and arguments about the numbers.
What led here
The result is that you use voice agents running last quarter's models while better and cheaper options are available
Where this fits in Signal Ledger
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The editorial angle
Almost everyone evaluates once, picks a stack of their choice, and never rechecks because switching from a vendor to another involves yet another integration and arguments about the numbers. Before founding Speko, I spent four years as cofounder and CTO building voice agents for enterprises across Asia in 10+ languages.
Source note
Hacker News reporting: https://speko.ai/