AI infrastructure

Speko

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Speko is the OpenRouter for Voice AI, the first proxyless, zero-latency model router for voice AI. It routes STT, LLM and TTS on numbers from the independent benchmark at speko.ai/benchmarks. The benchmark covers 89 speech and language models across 18 languages as of 2026-11-09. Hosted agents make and receive phone calls, with phone numbers and SM

Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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 previous company, shipping production voice for Fortune 500s.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Speko Group, Inc.

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

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 fortune 500s in 10+ languages. Earlier a software engineer at Amazon; MS in CS from UNIST, Korea.

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