Speko
New accelerator entry · 2026-07-07 · the record
In their words
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.
What the record says
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. Earlier a software engineer at Amazon; MS in CS from UNIST, Korea.
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