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Speko Launches OpenRouter for Optimizing Voice AI Model Combinations

Speko, a YC S26 startup, offers a platform that selects the best combination of speech-to-text, large language models, and text-to-speech models based on user constraints. It benchmarks public models and explains the rationale behind its choices.

Source: Hacker News Front Page · speko.ai Published 2026-08-17T15:36:18+00:00 Detected 2026-08-17T21:20:30+00:00
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Speko, a YC S26 startup, offers a platform that selects the best combination of speech-to-text, large language models, and text-to-speech models based on user constraints. It benchmarks public models and explains the rationale behind its choices.

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Hi HN! 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. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no2LY2gRh-c Typical production voice agent is an ensemble of...

Voice AI systems typically rely on multiple models working together, and Speko's platform simplifies selecting and optimizing these ensembles for better performance. This can help developers build more efficient and effective voice agents.

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