SANTA CLARA, Calif.—SoundHound Inc., the leading innovator in sound and voice recognition and artificial intelligence technologies, today announced that it has licensed its Houndify voice-enabling conversational intelligence developer platform to Rand McNally for its revolutionary connected car device, OverDryve™. Houndify software will allow users to input destinations in OverDryve’s navigation application with their voice, saving users time and protecting them from distractions while driving.
OverDryve™ is a dashboard tablet that provides advanced luxury car infotainment features to any car. It provides access to audible news, weather, traffic and sports, streaming music, award-winning navigation, hands-free calling and texting, and more.
“Houndify seeks to provide a safe and easy hands-free experience while driving,” said Amir Arbabi, Vice President of Business Development at SoundHound Inc. “Including the software in a manner that enables drivers to safely input destinations into their OverDryve™ devices is a key use case for our voice technology.”
“We are focused on developing products that help drivers maximize their capabilities and minimize distractions,” said Yusuf Ozturk, Chief Technology Officer at Rand McNally. “With Houndify, we are able to support voice input within our on-board navigation application.”
Houndify was launched in December, after a decade of research and development, and enables developers to revolutionize their products and services by adding smart, voice-enabled, conversational intelligence to any app or product. SoundHound Inc.’s mobile apps, Hound and SoundHound, offer voice-control features powered by the Houndify platform. More than 16,000 developers have signed up to use Houndify in their products, including NVIDIA (in a car dashboard), Samsung (in its smart home products) and more.
Houndify provides the world’s fastest ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), the world’s most advanced NLU (Natural Language Understanding), unmatched speed and accuracy utilizing “Speech-to-Meaning”, software development kits (SDKs) across all major operating systems and platforms (including iOS, Android, Windows, Unix, and Raspberry Pi) giving unparalleled speed-to-market and the ability to scale, and includes an ever-expanding set of domains of understanding and knowledge graphs. Developers and product creators can bring the power of voice-enabled conversational intelligence to their products or services within days. Developers interested in exploring the Houndify platform can visit Houndify.com to sign up and learn more.
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 technology to showcase a groundbreaking smartphone experience, and is the first product to leverage and showcase 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. And through the Houndify platform, we empower developers to be part of the Speech-to-Meaning revolution. Our Mission: Houndify everything.
About Rand McNally:
About Rand McNally – Rand McNally is transforming personal and business travel with its revolutionary connected vehicle technology. Leveraging its fast-growing telematics and fleet management expertise, along with its award winning commercial navigation, Rand McNally has defined a new category with the OverDryve™ Connected Car/Connected Truck platform. Celebrating 160 years in 2016, Rand McNally’s mission is to deliver innovative products and services that enrich life’s journey in four key segments: Consumer Electronics, Consumer Travel, Commercial Transportation, and Education. Learn more at randmcnally.com.
Contacts
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Alyssa Galella, 562-294-6261
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