SoundHound Inc. Expands Houndify Voice AI Platform’s Multi-Language Text-to-Speech Support With Acapela Group Partnership
SoundHound Inc., a provider of voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies, expanded the multi-language text-to-speech (TTS) offerings for its Houndify voice AI platform through a partnership with Acapela Group, a provider of voice and speech solutions. Houndify will now provide access to more than 100 different voices across 32 languages, making it one of the most comprehensive TTS platforms in the world.
The partnership combines Acapela Group’s TTS offerings with the full suite of Houndify’s voice AI technology, including Speech-to-Meaning and Deep-Meaning-Understanding, which delivers speed and accuracy in voice recognition and responses, and understands context, such as the user's location or previous queries, to support natural interactions. This means that companies, developers, and brands that are seeking to bring voice assistants and voice interfaces to their products and services have the choice of selecting unique sounding voices that are “off-the-shelf” as well as the option to develop customized, branded voices.
To date, Houndify supports the following TTS languages:Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium), Dutch (NL), English (Australia), English (India), English (Scottish), English (UK), English (US), Finnish, French, French (Canada), German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Sami, Spanish, Spanish (MX), Swedish (Finland), Swedish (Gothenburg), Swedish (Scania), Turkish.
Houndify says it is the first independent AI platform that enables developers and business owners to deploy a conversational interface anywhere and retain control of their brand and users, while differentiating and innovating. Houndify provides all the technology ingredients necessary for voice and AI integration, including the world’s fastest speech recognition, the most sophisticated natural language understanding, easy to use developer tools, knowledge graphs, and a large and rapidly growing number of domains. Domains are programs that provide a natural and fully conversational interface on specific topics, without requiring the users to memorize and use the specific phrasing of hard-coded commands or skills. Houndify technologies represent more than a decade of R&D and innovation by SoundHound Inc., resulting in significant and unique advantages.
The architecture already provides access to knowledge and data from Yelp, Uber and Expedia, as well as over 100 other domains such as weather, stocks, sports, local businesses, flights, hotels, mortgage, and even interactive games. Houndify also provides a large number of domains specifically targeted for the automotive industry.