SoundHound powers Hyundai Venue's voice command system

SoundHound, the leading innovator in voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies has announced a partnership with Hyundai Motor Group to bring the first voice-enabled, smart-connected SUV to the Indian market. Powered by SoundHound’s Houndify voice AI platform, the Hyundai Venue SUV enables drivers to speak queries and control various aspects of the car simply by pushing a button on the steering wheel and talking in their natural voices.

The Hyundai Venue launches with support for understanding English, specifically Indian-English accents, with support for additional languages across the Indian region coming later. The Houndify-powered Hyundai Venue began shipping in India this month.

Houndify is integrated into the Hyundai Venue shipping in India through the automotive company’s BlueLink Connected Car platform. With Houndify, drivers are able to use their voices to search in real-time for points of interests; ask about the weather, date, and time; make a phone call; and control the car’s media, navigation, and more.

Keyvan Mohajer, co-founder & CEO of SoundHound said, “Hyundai is a pioneering partner of SoundHound and we are thrilled to be part of this major milestone for both the auto and tech industries in the Indian market. Our mission to Houndify everything, by enabling brands to own and customise their voice experiences by leveraging our world-class technology, continues to expand globally as we deliver a robust, conversational and personalized in-car voice experience for Hyundai drivers.”

“We are proud to be at the forefront in bringing smart-connected vehicles to the Indian market,” said Paul Choo, vice president at Hyundai Motor Company. “Choosing SoundHound and Houndify as our partner to voice-enable the Hyundai Venue SUV ensures that we have the best technology possible to provide an exceptional experience to our customers.”

Houndify technologies represent more than a decade of R&D and innovation by SoundHound, making it one of the smartest and the most accurate voice AI platform in the market. SoundHound’s patented ‘Speech-to-Meaning and Deep Meaning Understanding’ technologies deliver unprecedented speed and accuracy in voice recognition and responses, and an ability to understand context, such as the user's location or previous queries, to support natural interactions. Houndify has an architecture for collaborative intelligence called  ‘Collective AI’, a powerful mechanism that facilitates collaboration among developers by enabling them to extend the functionality of existing knowledge domains. This results in a global AI with comprehensive knowledge that is always learning, is crowdsourced to domain experts, and is larger than the sum of its parts.

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