Hi Product Hunt! I'm Bek, founder of Speko.
Before this I was cofounded/CTO at a startup building voice AI apps. I left after Series A to work on the pain we lived with every week: we had to support 10+ languages, and I wished there was some kind of gateway that could route to the right voice tech based on the use case and language. Back then our process was a Google Sheet with 15 audio links we sent to people who speak those languages to score. If a new model was good, you swap. Every week something new comes out, even in English, and testing it is so much R&D cost that most teams end up running outdated models - swapping always looks like an R&D project. So early this year we started Speko.
What it is: a router for voice models. You come with your use case and language, and we route to the best speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech for it - measured on our public benchmarks, not vendor marketing. You should be running the best voice stack at any given moment. We don't train or sell models ourselves, and that is precisely how we keep the rankings impartial.
How the approach evolved: we launched on Hacker News recently and the discussion sharpened how we explain this. "Router" hides three questions: what gets picked (a model, a provider, or the whole stack), where it lives (an external hop or inside your session), and when it decides (session start or mid-call). A voice agent is a live duplex session, not a batch request - that is why this is its own product. And we are proxy-less: routing is decided before the session starts, then audio flows directly to the provider - no extra hop in the audio path.
About Speko on Product Hunt
“OpenRouter for Voice”
Speko launched on Product Hunt on August 27th, 2026 and earned 214 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. One API for speech-to-text, language models, and text-to-speech, with public benchmarks beside runtime availability.
On the analytics side, Speko competes within Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and Audio — topics that collectively have 997.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Speko performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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