According to the news, AI voice assistant SoundHound received $100 million in strategic financing, including: Tencent, Daimler, Hyundai, Midea and Orange SA. In addition to these investors, there are already investors including Samsung, NVIDIA, Korea Telecom, HTC, etc.
Information shows: After this round of financing, SoundHound will accelerate the international expansion of its Houdify voice artificial intelligence platform; establish new offices in China, France and Germany; and introduce new language recognition; and simultaneously connect its language technology to the home And on the car.
SoundHound founder and CEO Keyvan Mohajer said: "SoundHound may enter the Chinese market. Successful foreign companies in China are very rare. Even Google and Facebook have not won this big cake. This is a signal for SoundHound. The strategy to enter China needs to be cautious."
Therefore, this round of financing is strategic financing, and the resources of investors are more important. Among the investors, Tencent's huge user base and beautiful home equipment are self-evident for SoundHound's entry into China; Daimler and Hyundai may help SoundHound's Houdify to access the vehicle system; France Telecom in the investor The company's Orange SA resources facilitate the establishment of SoundHound's office in France.
Many people's impressions of SoundHound may be stuck in the "Song of the song", but in fact, SoundHound has been studying the application of artificial intelligence technology, including music recognition, speech recognition, and natural language processing. SoundHound has long been connected to Android and IOS systems for practical use, and has experienced data learning in various environments for 10 years, and its performance is in the leading position in the industry.
When talking about Google's voice assistant and Amazon's Alexa, Mohajer said: "Houndify's technology is earlier than Google and Amazon. Obviously good ideas will always be copied." Currently, SoundHound also has its own voice recognition software Hound. The company said that when using Hound, even if the user has 12 information points in a sentence, it can still be recognized and feedback a good search result to the user. And when using SoundHound's various speech recognition tools, you don't need to repeatedly emphasize the SoundHound name to wake up the device, which is different from most other voice assistants.
A report from Analysys in 2017 predicted that the scale of China's voice industry will exceed 10 billion in 2017; the intelligent voice market is in its infancy, and it is on the eve of the vertical field of smart car, smart home, and smart wearable. In addition, the domestic Internet giant will open the voice ecosystem and build a full-ecological industry chain by integrating voice technology into products or applying it to relevant business scenarios in an industry-wide cooperation. The intelligent voice market will soon have an explosive period.
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