Description
SoundHound is an audio and speech recognition company founded in 2005. It develops speech recognition, natural language understanding, sound recognition and search technologies. Its featured products include Houndify, a Voice AI developer platform, Hound, a voice-enabled digital assistant, and music recognition mobile app SoundHound. The company’s headquarters are in Santa Clara, California.
History
The company was founded in 2005 by Keyvan Mohajer, an Iranian-Canadian computer scientist who had founded a number of dot com ventures before starting SoundHound.
In 2009, the company's Midomi app was rebranded as SoundHound but is still available as a web version on midomi.com. In 2012, SoundHound announced it had over 100 million users globally. In 2014, SoundHound became the first music-search product available as a wearable.
In 2015, SoundHound became the first music recognition service shipping in autos, in a partnership with Hyundai, in the new Genesis model.
By May 2016, SoundHound had over 300 million users globally.
In 2018, SoundHound Inc. announced partnerships with Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, and Honda to provide voice interaction for their products using its Houndify voice AI platform.
SoundHound won the 2020 Webby Award for Productivity (Voice) in the category Apps, Mobile & Voice. In June of that year, the company announced partnerships with Snap Inc. as the technology behind Voice Scan in the Snapchat app, and Mastercard to voice-enable their new Drive Through solutions.
On November 16 2021, SoundHound announced plans to become a public company via a SPAC merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners Co. On 28 April 2022, the combined company SoundHound AI, Inc. went public, listed under the symbol SOUN on the Nasdaq.
