Speko Launched as "OpenRouter for Voice," Routing STT, LLM and TTS on Public Benchmarks Instead of Vendor Marketing

Product Hunt·medium signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy link

Speko, a YC company led by Bek Abdik, launched on Product Hunt on 2026-08-27 at #5 with 101 points, selecting the best speech-to-text model, language model and text-to-speech engine per use case and language rather than training any models of its own. It names ElevenLabs, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Vapi and Eden AI as competitors, which means it routes across the same vendors it competes with. The stated selection basis, public benchmarks rather than vendor marketing, is the actual product claim, and it is the voice-stack version of the routing layer that OpenRouter established for text.