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Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
Hacker News · abdik · Published · 3 min read · 55 on Hacker News
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- What happened
- Speko launched a unified API gateway for voice AI models, routing requests to optimal speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech providers based on language-specific benchmarks.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building voice agents need to choose between multiple speech models; Speko matters when you want automated model selection optimized per language rather than manual vendor selection.
- Watch out
- The benchmarks shown cover only English and eight other languages; coverage gaps exist for many languages, and real-world performance may differ from published measurements.
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