SoundHound AI Partners with Tencent to Bring Conversational AI to Auto Brands

SoundHound AI, a voice artificial intelligence solutions provider, will be working with Tencent Intelligent Mobility to bring its voice and conversational AI capabilities to Tencent Intelligent Mobility's cloud-based solutions for the automotive industry.

The collaboration will enable Tencent Intelligent Mobility to deliver dynamic, localized user experiences to automotive players to provide end users with seamless hands-free access to a range of in-vehicle applications.

Tencent Intelligent Mobility is working on integrating SoundHound Chat AI Automotive, its in-vehicle voice assistant , to give drivers and passengers access to a range of apps, car controls, and entertainment domains (including major audiovisual streaming services) as well as generative AI responses through natural speech.

SoundHound's conversational voice intelligence can handle complex conversational questions and intelligently filter responses to ensure the user gets relevant, useful responses, whether they are asking for flight times, navigation, sports scores, or more detailed information like travel recommendations or local history. The company's arbitration technology also helps automakers eliminate the risk associated with AI hallucinations and misinformation.

Users can ask detailed questions and continue the conversation, seamlessly interacting with external knowledge sources and in-vehicle controls interchangeably.

"We're excited to be working with Tencent Intelligent Mobility to bring their vision for a dynamic, intuitive infotainment platform to life," said Tom Park, vice president of business development for Asia at SoundHound AI, in a statement. "Our voice AI will play a critical role in giving drivers safe, hands-free access to a vast range of voice-activated content, changing the way that drivers and passengers interact with their vehicles and creating the intelligent in-vehicle experience of the future."

"We're thrilled to explore new user experience in the intelligent cockpit leveraging SoundHound AI's sophisticated in-vehicle voice assistant powered by LLM," said Pei Shen, general manager of strategy at Tencent Intelligent Mobility, in a statement. "We share the vision of SoundHound AI to bring digital content and digital services to drivers and passengers in a safe and intuitive way."