Backed by Y Combinator · S26

Describe it.
We build it.
You own it.

Speko is the voice layer for your product. Describe the agent you want — we benchmark every STT, LLM and TTS provider and route every call to the proven best. One API. No per-provider keys. Live in minutes.

or talk to it live no credit card · live in <5 min
Joined by 400+ builders this month
median turn 340ms live now
uptime 99.9% this month
powered by the best of every provider
OpenAIElevenLabsDeepgramAnthropicCartesiaAssemblyAIGoogleWhisperAlibabaxAI
the plumbing
340ms median turn latency
47+ provider combinations
99.9% uptime
<5 min from idea to live
live demo

Don’t take our word for it.
Talk to one.

Talk to Speko’s own agent — it answers anything about the platform in real time, retrieved live from our docs. No script, no decision tree. Ask something easy, then try to break it.

Try asking
Tap to talk — it answers from our docs, live
how it works

From a sentence to a shipped agent.

No provider sprawl, no glue code. Describe the agent you want — Speko assembles and routes the proven-best stack, and you ship.

  1. 01

    Describe it

    Tell Speko what your agent should do, in plain English.

  2. 02

    Speko routes it

    We continuously benchmark every STT, LLM and TTS provider and assemble the proven-best stack for your use case and language.

  3. 03

    Test it live

    Talk to it in the browser or get a real phone call. Tune voice, latency and accuracy in real time.

    Try the live demo
  4. 04

    Ship & own it

    Deploy to a phone number, web widget or API. Your keys, your data, your agent.

    Build your agent
the leaderboard

We benchmark so you don't have to.

Speko continuously tests every provider on accuracy, latency and cost, then routes each call to the winner. Here's the current English STT field.

English WER · FLEURS · lower is better
  1. 01 ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime 3.4%
  2. 02 Alibaba qwen3-asr-flash 3.5%
  3. 03 AssemblyAI Universal-3 Pro 5.1%
  4. 04 Google Cloud Chirp 2 5.4%
  5. 05 ElevenLabs Scribe v1 5.4%
  6. 06 Google Gemini 2.5 Flash (STT) 6.0%
retrieval

The fastest retrieval
in voice.

A voice agent has ~200 ms to think. Our voice-native retrieval engine answers in sub-millisecond time — so memory never eats your latency budget.

95.8–100% recall vs an exact search, at 0.76 ms across 100K documents.

RETRIEVAL · P50 100K docs · lower is better
Speko 0.76ms
ChromaDB 352ms
Pinecone 433ms
Qdrant 598ms

Speko measured in-process at 100K docs. ChromaDB, Pinecone and Qdrant are their published figures for network-hosted deployments — includes network transport, not like-for-like.

ship it anywhere

One API. Every surface.

However your users reach you, Speko answers — with one integration.

Phone number Inbound and outbound calls over SIP. Bring a number or get one.
Web & mobile widget Drop-in voice widget, or wire the SDK into your app.
API & webhooks Full programmatic control with @spekoai/sdk and event webhooks.
create-agent.ts
// illustrative
import { Speko } from "@spekoai/sdk";
const speko = new Speko({ apiKey: process.env.SPEKO_KEY });
const agent = await speko.agents.create({
  intent: "Book appointments for a dental clinic",
  channels: ["phone", "web"],
});
console.log(agent.phoneNumber); // +1 …
1 API to learn
0 provider keys to manage
scale
questions

Good questions.

What is Speko?

A voice-AI gateway. One API gives you speech-to-text, an LLM and text-to-speech, provider-agnostic. Speko benchmarks every provider and routes each call to the proven-best stack.

Do I need my own provider API keys?

No. One Speko key covers it — we manage provider credentials, routing and failover. Bring-your-own keys are optional if you prefer.

How does routing choose a provider?

Continuous benchmarks on accuracy (WER), latency and cost, per language and use case. Each call gets the best stack, with automatic failover if a provider degrades.

What latency can I expect?

Around 340 ms median for a conversational turn. You can optimize any agent for latency, accuracy or cost.

Who owns the data and the agent?

You do. Your audio and transcripts aren't used to train models, and you can export your configuration at any time.

How fast can I launch?

Under five minutes from a plain-English description. Talk to your agent in the browser before you ship it to a phone number or the web.

start now

Your first agent is waiting.

Describe it in a sentence. Hear it in a minute. Ship it today.

YC S26 SOC 2 in progress founders@speko.ai