SoundHound Expands Houndify Voice AI to 22 Languages

SoundHound, a provider of voice AI and conversational intelligence technologies, has expanded its Houndify Voice AI platform to 22 languages and announced plans to add more than 100 languages and variations.

Companies seeking to create omnichannel voice experiences can now access the majority of the languages their customers speak, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indian-accented English, German, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, and more.

"We've always been focused on providing a voice AI platform that allows our partners to speak the languages of their users," said Majid Emami, co-founder and vice president of engineering at SoundHound, in a statement. "This announcement reinforces the growth of our language library, ready for any company looking for speech recognition with global reach."

"We're committed to our efforts in language expansion, including key [automatic speech recognition] features such as long-form transcription and customized vocabularies," said Keyvan Mohajer, co-founder and CEO of SoundHound, in a statement. "Our ASR adds tremendous value and leveraging our breakthrough [natural language understanding] provides endless possibilities."