SoundHound
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| Developer(s) | SoundHound, Inc |
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| Initial release | January 29, 2009 |
| Website | www |
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.[1] In 2014, SoundHound became the first music-search product available as a wearable.[2] Later, SoundHound became the first music recognition service shipping in autos, in a partnership with Hyundai, in the new 2015 Genesis.[3] By June 2015, SoundHound had over 260 million users globally.[4]
SoundHound Features
SoundHound is a music search engine available on the Apple App Store[5] Google Play,[6] the Windows Phone Store, and on the BlackBerry 10 platform.[7] It enables users to identify music recorded through their device's microphone.[8] For searching, it is possible to speak or type the name of the artist, composer, song and piece.[8] SoundHound can recognise tracks from singing, humming, speaking, or typing, as well as from a recording.[9] Sound matching is achieved through "Sound2Sound" technology, which, the company says, can match even poorly-hummed performances to professional recordings.[10]
Funding
Melodis secured $7 million in a Series B funding round in October 2008, bringing total funds raised to $12 million. The round was led by TransLink Capital with the participation of JAIC America and Series A investor Global Catalyst Partners.[11]
In 2009, Melodis attracted additional funding from Larry Marcus at Walden Venture Capital, who had previously invested in music startups Pandora and Snocap.[10] The $4 million funding round was led by Walden Venture Capital VII, with the participation of an unnamed device manufacturer.[12]
See also
References
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