Soundhound news and trends

AI Money: Earnings Reports Show a Tech Firm Bonanza
artificial intelligence // May 16, 2024

Tech companies are cashing in on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, with first-quarter results showing surging demand for everything from voice assistants to cloud computing. The AI gold rush is lifting sales and profit at specialists like SoundHound and Nvidia and more prominent players like Microsoft and Baidu, highlighting...

From Reservations to Ordering, Gen AI Took Over Restaurants in 2023
Artificial Intelligence // December 27, 2023

In 2023, generative artificial intelligence began to make its way into many different parts of the restaurant industry, across the back- and front-of-house, boosting efficiency and effectiveness. Earlier this month, for instance, McDonald’s announced a partnership with Google Cloud, through which the quick-service restaurant giant...

AI’s First Year: How Voice Reshaped the Conversational Ecosystem
artificial intelligence // December 18, 2023

We live during one of the most connected periods of human history. And that is a trend that is only set to accelerate, particularly now that we are a full calendar year into the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI). After all, connection begins with...

SoundHound Pays $25 Million for Restaurant AI Firm SYNQ3 
Acquisitions // December 07, 2023

SoundHound is acquiring SYNQ3, a company providing restaurants with voice artificial intelligence (AI). “The deal will make SoundHound the preeminent U.S. provider of voice AI for restaurants, significantly extending its market reach by an order of magnitude to over 10,000 signed locations and accelerating the deployment of leading-edge generative...

Interviews & Exclusives
SoundHound CEO: Conversational AI Radically Changes Consumer Expectation for Voice Assistants

March 28, 2023
The contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush is already transforming industries across the global economy. Now, businesses are looking to transform the AI economy. Keyvan Mohajer, CEO and co-founder of conversational intelligence platform SoundHound, told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in a recent discussion that advances in voice AI, particularly around improved speech recognition and synergistic […]

SoundHound GM: The Future Of Voice May Not Go By ‘Google’ Or ‘Alexa’

May 11, 2018
Twenty years ago, if the radio played a song you liked, you had to put your ear to the speaker and hope the DJ said the title and artist so...

Quick Reads
SoundHound Pays $25 Million for Restaurant AI Firm SYNQ3 

December 07, 2023
SoundHound is acquiring SYNQ3, a company providing restaurants with voice artificial intelligence (AI). “The deal will make SoundHound the preeminent U.S. provider of voice AI for restaurants, significantly extending its market reach by an order of magnitude to over 10,000 signed locations and accelerating the deployment of leading-edge generative AI capabilities to the industry,” the company said in a […]

SoundHound AI and ChowNow Team on Responsive Restaurant Call Answering

August 30, 2023
SoundHound AI, Inc., a leader in voice artificial intelligence, has joined forces with ChowNow, an online ordering and marketing platform for independent restaurants. This strategic partnership, announced Tuesday (Aug. 29), aims to revolutionize...

Togg Taps SoundHound to Bring AI to Smart Vehicles

August 17, 2023
Voice artificial intelligence firm SoundHound has teamed with Turkish mobility provider Togg. The partnership, announced Thursday (Aug. 17), adds SoundHound’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology to recently launched Togg’s smart vehicles....

SoundHound Enables Voice Interaction With Generative AI Models Like ChatGPT 

March 23, 2023
SoundHound AI has launched an app that enables voice interaction with tools like ChatGPT. The new SoundHound Chat AI is a voice assistant that enables brands and their customers to access...