Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) Routes Every Voice Call Across a Dozen STT/LLM/TTS Vendors and Benchmarks Them Per Language and Region
Speko, launched on HN Aug 17 to 110 points and 60 comments, picks the optimal STT + LLM + TTS combination per call against constraints like accuracy, latency, or cost, returning the chosen provider and model names with performance scores. Founder Bek previously spent four years as cofounder/CTO building multilingual voice agents for Asian enterprises; the gateway and self-hosted setup are free forever, with revenue from the hosted router and managed keys, and external usage has grown about 25% weekly since late June. The sharpest thread in comments was architectural — end-to-end speech models versus cascaded pipelines — with practitioners saying most teams still want to control each stage, which is the bet Speko is making.
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