Independent voice AI company providing conversational speech recognition for cars, restaurants and customer service.
SoundHound AI, founded in 2005, develops conversational voice AI used in cars, TVs, drive-throughs and customer-service lines. Its platform combines speech recognition and natural-language understanding and supports many languages, and it has grown through acquisitions including the voice-ordering company SYNQ3 and the customer-service AI firm Amelia. For the language industry, SoundHound is a bellwether for voice interfaces that must work across languages and accents, a market adjacent to interpreting and speech translation.