2023 Speech Industry Award Winner: SoundHound AI Brings Speech Breakthroughs to the Mainstream

Few vendors in the speech arena have been as busy in 2023 as SoundHound AI. The company, which is based in Santa Clara, Calif., this year launched Chat AI, a voice-enabled digital assistant with generative artificial intelligence; Smart Answering, which uses voice AI to handle inbound customer calls; Dynamic Interaction, a breakthrough in conversational AI that not only recognizes and understands speech but also responds and acts in real time; Intelligent Transcription; and Edge+Cloud connectivity. It also deepened its push into several key industry verticals, most notable the restaurant and automotive sectors.