Orchard
Speech-to-text for LatAm calls. Most accuracy per dollar.
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Details
- External ID
- 1261263
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Orchard
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Audio
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Speech-to-text API built for real Latin American Spanish calls. $0.025/hr batch, $0.036/hr with word-level speaker diarization. OpenAI-compatible: swap one line. We benchmarked 7 engines on real calls and published audio, references and code.
Enrichment
- Niche
- voice interfaces and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- speech-to-text api optimized for latin american phone calls
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Delivering custom regional STT with diarization at fractions of standard market cost ($0.025/hr) requires custom acoustic models, massive localized audio datasets, and highly optimized GPU inference infra.
What it would actually take: The service requires a proprietary curated corpus of Latin American phone audio, fine-tuned ASR models (e.g., Kaldi, Whisper, or Conformer variants), and an ultra-optimized C++ inference engine (like vLLM or TensorRT-LLM/CTranslate2). It also demands massive GPU fleet management and custom word-level diarization algorithms.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #186 of 286 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
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