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Speko launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech model

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
4
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

speko.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Speko on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Speko is a router for voice models: one API key, and your voice agent runs on the speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models we measured as best for your language and use case. The measurements are public at benchmarks.speko.ai: we test new models the day they ship and re-route when the numbers change, so you rewrite nothing. We ran this bake-off by hand for four years at Hupo, shipping production voice for Morgan Stanley, Prudential, HSBC, and Grab. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Every voice model is benchmarked in English. Your users don't speak English. Speko measures 59 speech and language models across 10 languages, then routes each session to the one that actually wins." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Beknazar Abdikamalov, Founder/CEO: Founder and CEO of Speko (YC S26). Previously co-founder and CTO of Hupo (voice AI; $14M raised; backed by DST Global and Meta), where he spent four years shipping production voice AI for Morgan Stanley, Prudential, HSBC, and Grab in English, Thai, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. He still has the Hupo file named thai1 through thai15, each line a hand-run speech-model experiment; that file is Speko's entire thesis. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Speko

  • Product Hunt ↗
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  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
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  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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