SoundHound

SoundHound Inc., founded in 2005, is an audio recognition and cognition company. It develops sound-recognition and sound-search technologies. Its feature product is called SoundHound. It also develops a voice-recognition smart assistant platform called Hound and an API called Houndify.

History

The company was founded in 2005 by Keyvan Mohajer, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford. In 2010, the company's Midomi app was rebranded as SoundHound. In 2012, SoundHound announced it had over 100 million users globally. In 2014, SoundHound became the first music-search product available as a wearable. Later, SoundHound became the first music recognition service shipping in autos, in a partnership with Hyundai, in the new 2015 Genesis. By June 2015, SoundHound had over 260 million users globally.

SoundHound Features

SoundHound is a music search engine available on the Apple App StoreGoogle Play, the Windows Phone Store, and on the BlackBerry 10 platform. It enables users to identify music recorded through their device's microphone. For searching, it is possible to speak or type the name of the artist, composer, song and piece. SoundHound can recognise tracks from singing, humming, speaking, or typing, as well as from a recording. Sound matching is achieved through "Sound2Sound" technology, which, the company says, can match even poorly-hummed performances to professional recordings.