SPEKO AUTOMATES VOICE AI MODEL SELECTION
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Speko, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launches a platform that automatically selects optimal combinations of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models based on user constraints and benchmarked performance data.
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