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SoundHound Inc.'s Houndify Voice AI Platform Powers Conversational Experiences Across Autos, Connected Speakers, Robotics, Appliances, Augmented Reality, Wearables and More at CES
SoundHound
Inc.®, the leading innovator in voice-enabled AI and
conversational intelligence technologies, today announced several
integrations of its Houndify™
voice AI platform into products across multiple Internet of Things (IoT)
categories: automotive, connected speakers, robotics, appliances,
augmented reality experiences, smart home, and wearables. Some of the
companies showcasing Houndify integrations include Hyundai,
HUMAX,
BUNN,
Mayfield
Robotics, AvatarMind
Robots, Modiface,
PhotoSpring
and Onkyo.
Demos of their products will be shown at CES (News - Alert) 2018 in Las Vegas this week.
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Hyundai Intelligent Personal Agent (Photo: Business Wire)
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Automotive:
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Hyundai Intelligent Personal Agent - Intelligent Personal
Agent, Hyundai's
new voice-enabled virtual assistant system powered by Houndify,
introduces a futuristic driving experience where the system's
proactive assistant can predict drivers' needs. Drivers can
seamlessly control features of the car, including air
conditioning, sunroof, and door locks, with voice commands. The
Houndify platform makes it possible to combine an array of driver
conveniences, including making phone calls, sending hands-free
text messages, searching for destinations, refining previous
searches, playing music, checking weather, and managing schedules.
The experience also supports "Car-to-Home" service, enabling
drivers to interact with their smart home devices from the car.
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Connected Speaker:
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HUMAX Speaker - HUMAX,
one of the world's largest manufacturers of digital set-top boxes,
smart home and gateway solutions, connected devices and network
solutions, exporting its products to more than 90 countries across
the globe, has partnered with SoundHound Inc. to provide a
best-in-class personal voice assistant integrated into a new AI
speaker with display functionality. Leveraging SoundHound Inc.'s
powerful Houndify plaform, users can make compound and complex
queries, and ask follow-up questions without needing to provide
context. Users of the new HUMAX speaker will also benefit from
Houndify's ongoing expansion of functionality and domain knowledge
without ever needing to activate new "skills."
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Robotics:
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Kuri Robot by Mayfield Robotics - Houndify
helps Kuri, a cute and adorable home robot, both hear and
understand a variety of commands like: "Hey Kuri, tell me a joke,"
"go home," "play my favorite song," and more.
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AvatarMind's iPal Robot - The iPal robot
integrates Houndify's voice control for directing movement of the
robot and general voice assistant features, including the ability
to follow up, refine a query, and more. It can also be customized
for particular commercial or educational use cases.
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Appliances:
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BUNN Sure Immersion Coffee Machine - BUNN,
the global leader in industrial beverage dispensing equipment,
supplier to the world's leading beverage brands, and a household
name for coffee machines everywhere, has developed the Sure
Immersion Machine featuring "bean-to-cup" brewing that instantly
grinds your selection. With Houndify integrated, users can operate
and interact with the coffee machine using the wake phrase "OK,
Barista…" While the cup of coffee brews, users can ask for the
weather, sports updates, nutritional information and much more,
and the experience can be customized uniquely for brands.
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Augmented Reality:
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Modiface Makeup Mirror - Utilizing the world's most
accurate beauty AR engine from Modiface,
mobile devices such as the iPad can become magic mirrors as
customers test makeup virtually. Through an integration with
Houndify, the Modiface Makeup Application becomes voice-enabled.
For example, users can simply say, "Show me green eyeshadow," or
"add red lipstick and pink blush," and the application shows them
what they would look like with those makeup effects. Modiface
technology is used by top beauty brands around the world,
including L'Oreal, Sephora, Estée Lauder and MAC.
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Smart Home:
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PhotoSpring Digital Photo Frame - PhotoSpring
is redefining the digital photo and video experience by helping
people stay connected to the people they love. The easy-to-use,
WiFi-connected, touchscreen digital frame automatically uploads
and shares photos and videos from your iPhone (News - Alert), Android and other
web-connected devices. Now, with the Hound voice assistant, users
can say "OK Hound, show me my albums," and ask about the weather,
local restaurants, set timers and more.
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Wearables:
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Onkyo AI Smart Wearable - Onkyo
exhibits a wearable smart concierge device that is worn around
your neck and features a voice assistant. Users can simply speak,
hands-free, to activate an assistant, search, navigate, play music
and send text messages, and more.
"Conversational voice interfaces represent the next shift in how we
interact with the devices around us and the user behavior of speaking to
things will quickly become an integral part of our daily lives," said
Keyvan Mohajer, cofounder and CEO of SoundHound Inc. "Houndify's
platform-agnostic approach allows companies across all verticals to
quickly and easily embed a robust conversational voice interface into
their products - while still maintaining their brand's identity - and
we're thrilled to add these new partnerships to our portfolio."
Houndify is the first independent AI platform that enables developers
and business owners to deploy a conversational interface anywhere and
retain control of their brand and users, while differentiating and
innovating. Houndify provides all the technology ingredients necessary
for voice and AI integration, including the world's fastest speech
recognition, the most sophisticated natural language understanding, easy
to use developer tools, knowledge graphs, and a large and rapidly
growing number of domains. Domains are programs that provide a natural
and fully conversational interface on specific topics, without
requiring the users to memorize and use the specific phrasing of hard
coded commands or skills.
Houndify technologies represent more than a decade of R&D and innovation
by SoundHound Inc., resulting in significant and unique advantages. Key
advantages include SoundHound Inc.'s patented Speech-to-Meaning™
and Deep Meaning Understanding™ technologies, which deliver
unprecedented speed and accuracy in voice recognition and responses, and
understands context, such as the user's location or previous queries, to
support natural interactions.
More than 60,000 partners have registered on the Houndify platform since
its launch in December 2015, and more than 1,000 distinct products are
being Houndified. Strategic partners include the Samsung
ARTIK Smart IoT platform, and NVIDIA,
which brings Houndify's large vocabulary speech recognition and natural
language understanding to cars even without cloud connection by
utilizing NVIDIA (News - Alert) GPUs. Other Houndify partners include integrations with Sharp's
RoBoHoN® platform; Rand
McNally, which uses the company's voice technology in its OverDryve™
connected car device; and 11 car makers around the world.
Developers interested in exploring the Houndify platform can visit Houndify.com
to learn more and register. The Hound voice search and assistant app is
available as a free iOS or Android (News - Alert) app, and can be downloaded via SoundHound.com.
About SoundHound Inc.:
SoundHound
Inc. turns sound into understanding and actionable meaning. We
believe in enabling humans to interact with the things around them in
the same way we interact with each other: by speaking naturally to
mobile phones, cars, TVs, music speakers, and every other part of the
emerging 'connected' world. Our consumer product, Hound, leverages our
Speech-to-Meaning™ and Deep Meaning Understanding™ technologies to
create a groundbreaking smartphone experience, and is the first product
to build on the Houndify platform. Our SoundHound product applies our
technology to music, enabling people to discover, explore, and share the
music around them, and even find the name of that song stuck in their
heads by singing or humming. Through the Houndify platform, we aim to
bring voice-enabled AI to everyone and enable others to build on top of
it. We call this Collective AI. Our Mission: Houndify everything.
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