SoundHound is currently in the process of becoming a public company through its expected merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners, and this multi-year agreement with Qualcomm Technologies to enable SoundHound’s advanced voice AI technology on Snapdragon is certainly an interesting expansion for the company's business.
App developers and device manufacturers will have the ability to integrate the advanced technologies provided by Qualcomm and SoundHound to quickly and easily implement enhanced conversational voice experiences and build voice interfaces that can detect voice queries in noisy environments and when a device is already transmitting other sounds.
"The combination of SoundHound's conversational intelligence technology with our Snapdragon platforms paves the way for new use cases and innovative voice experiences," says Ziad Asghar, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies. "Combining Qualcomm Technologies’ voice technology with SoundHound’s voice AI platform provides customers with the ability to customize their voice solutions and provide new user experiences, while maintaining transparency of user data."
The solution brings together SoundHound’s advanced voice AI platform, with its full stack of proprietary technology, including Speech-to-Meaning and Deep Meaning Understanding, and a library of hundreds of content domains and select Snapdragon platforms with echo cancellation, noise reduction (ECNR), and user verification technologies. Snapdragon’s low-power, always-on capability means the host device is always ready to respond to a wake word or voice command in a low-power state.
“Our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies gives app developers and hardware manufacturers a faster, simpler way to add always-on, voice interfaces to their apps and devices,” says James Hom, Co-Founder and VP Products, SoundHound. “By combining Qualcomm Technologies’ voice solutions with SoundHound’s voice AI technology into a single solution, app developers and device manufacturers can expand product offerings with more options for enhanced voice services.”
App developers can now build voice user interfaces to overcome the challenges associated with mobile apps running on Android devices. Once available, end users can make a voice request to a voice-enabled app from across the room — even when the Android device is already playing music or streaming other content.
"SoundHound’s natural language understanding (NLU) engine delivers fast and accurate responses due to its proprietary technologies that process speech in real-time and allows for double negations, complex, multiple queries, and follow-on requests. Its voice AI platform is flexible, scalable, and customizable, allowing developers to create unique voice experiences that include a combination of custom commands and custom content domains as well as an extensive library of public content domains, including weather, sports, news, entertainment, and more," SoundHound states.
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