Speko, a Y Combinator company that routes voice-agent traffic across speech models, launched on Product Hunt on August 27 and appeared among the day's leading products during voting.
Founder Beknazar Abdikamalov posted the listing and said Speko was already in the top five. The product is a single API for the three pieces of a typical voice agent: speech-to-text, a language model, and text-to-speech. Speko measures those models itself, publishes the scores at benchmarks.speko.ai, and sends each session to the stack that wins for that language and use case. When a vendor ships a new model, the company says it tests the same day and can change the route without a rewrite.
The public board is Speko's argument. Its homepage currently shows four different speech-to-text models leading across nine languages, while 11 of 23 models are measured only in English. Speko says it does not train or sell models and argues that this removes an incentive to favor a vendor on the board. Its hosted Router selects providers and streams results through Speko. Separately, its open-source Gateway can run alongside a customer's voice agent, allowing media to travel directly to the selected provider while locally supplied credentials remain in the customer's process.
The hosted Router can retry another ranked provider when the primary fails. When Speko manages Gateway credentials, the company describes one bounded fallback if a provider fails to open. In provider-direct Gateway sessions, where the customer's process holds the keys, fallback happens only at connection setup if the chosen provider refuses the call.
Beknazar spent four years as co-founder and chief technology officer of Hupo, a Singapore AI sales-coaching company that raised a $10 million Series A led by DST Global Partners in January 2026. TechCrunch has listed HSBC, Prudential, and Grab among Hupo's customers. At Hupo the team supported more than 10 languages, including English, Thai, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, by running bake-offs by hand. Abdikamalov left after that round to turn the bake-off into infrastructure. Speko came out of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch. It is based in San Francisco and lists a team of four.
The hosted Router sits at router.speko.dev. The open-source Gateway works with LiveKit and Pipecat. Developers can connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents through Speko's MCP server. About 10 days before Product Hunt, a Launch HN thread on the same product drew 118 points and 69 comments. In July, 19 days into YC, Abdikamalov wrote that usage on the platform had risen 30-fold and that Speko had signed its first 12-month customer contract.
Voice agents are live calls, not batch jobs. A new speech model can land every week, and most teams cannot re-run a bake-off that often. Speko is betting they will pay for a switchboard that already does that work.
