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SoundHound was founded in 2005 and develops speech recognition, natural language understanding, sound recognition, and search technologies1. On November 16, 2021, SoundHound announced plans to become a public company via a SPAC merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners Co. On April 28, 2022, the combined company, SoundHound AI, Inc., went public and is listed under the symbol SOUN on the Nasdaq. SoundHound AI Inc is an innovator of conversational intelligence, offering an independent Voice AI platform that enables businesses across industries to deliver high-quality conversational experiences to customers.

SoundHound is all about audio, providing multiple solutions using voice and conversational intelligence. The company’s namesake product lets users identify songs and answer music-based queries in addition to searching and playing music. SoundHound started as a Shazam-like song recognition app called Midomi, but it has expanded to answering complex voice prompts like Siri. Instead of converting language into text like most virtual assistants, the app’s AI combines voice recognition and language understanding in a single step.