Launch of SoundHound Dynamic Interaction Marks Groundbreaking New Era for Human-Computer Interaction – Yahoo Finance
Voice AI category leader unveils new approach, reimagines speech technology for customer service and restaurant use cases
SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 17, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN) (“SoundHound”), a global leader in voice artificial intelligence, today introduced Dynamic Interaction™, a category-level breakthrough in conversational AI that raises the bar for human-computer interaction by not only recognizing and understanding speech, but also responding and acting in real-time.
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Dynamic Interaction is a category-level breakthrough in conversational AI (Photo: Business Wire)
WATCH: Dynamic Interaction Restaurant Food Ordering Demo
Where existing voice technology requires wake words and relies on turn-taking with awkward pauses to process requests, Dynamic Interaction uses the twin technologies of fragment parsing – which breaks speech down to partial-utterances and processes them in real-time – and full-duplex audio-visual integration to create an instantaneous, next-generation experience.
In customer service settings, like ordering food at a restaurant, this means that users won’t have to speak in a slow or unnatural way in order to be understood. They can communicate just as if they were talking to a human, receive instant responses, and customize and edit a food order “live” as they go.
Dynamic Interaction:
Instantly follows and captures fluent speech in real-time – no awkward pauses or “turn-taking” as with some other assistants.
Completely ignores off-topic speech – only responding to domain-specific topics, like the items on a menu.
Multimodal, continuous feedback confirms requests via audio and visuals “live” as the customer engages with a device or service – gives firm reassurance that an order or request has been understood accurately
Allows users to change, adapt, and delete requests in real-time – food orders can be customized and changed using natural human speech
Makes proactive suggestions to the user based on a real-time interpretation of the user’s speech – like a dessert menu popping up onscreen when a customer says “for dessert I’ll have…”
Users can input information via voice and touch interface interchangeably and simultaneously
Assistant responds with audio and visual output, and intelligently decides when to speak to the user versus simply updating the visual output
This new technology has broad applicability to many industries, especially across customer service and employee productivity use cases. For the restaurant industry in particular, which is facing unprecedented staffing challenges, the need to automate and gain efficiencies is particularly relevant. As its first test ground, Dynamic Interaction will offer restaurants smart, accurate support for voice ordering at drive-thrus, kiosks, and via smartphone, tablet, and desktop ordering platforms.
This first-of-its-kind system promises to revolutionize and simplify the customer experience, giving restaurants and other service industries the confidence to scale voice AI more broadly.
“As the Dynamic Interaction demo shows, this technology is incredibly user-friendly and precise. Consumers won’t have to modify how they speak to the voice assistant to get a useful response – they can just speak as naturally as they would to a human. As an added bonus they’ll also have the means to instantly know and edit registered requests,” says Keyvan Mohajer, Co-Founder and CEO of SoundHound. “In our 17 year history of developing cutting-edge voice AI, this is perhaps the most important technical leap forward. We believe, just like how Apple’s multi-touch technology leapfrogged touch interfaces in 2009, this is a significant disruption in human-computer interfaces.”
Dynamic Interaction can be used anywhere a business might interact with a customer. For restaurants, this could be a drive thru, a kiosk, a smartphone, laptop, or even over the phone, where Dynamic Interaction can give smart, instant verbal and visual interactions.
You can learn more about this breakthrough technology on the SoundHound website.
About SoundHound
SoundHound (Nasdaq: SOUN), a leading innovator of conversational intelligence, offers an independent voice AI platform that enables businesses across industries to deliver best-in-class conversational experiences to their customers. Built on proprietary Speech-to-Meaning® and Deep Meaning Understanding® technologies, SoundHound’s advanced voice AI platform provides exceptional speed and accuracy and enables humans to interact with products and services like they interact with each other—by speaking naturally. SoundHound is trusted by companies around the globe, including Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Pandora, Qualcomm, Netflix, Snap, Square, LG, VIZIO, KIA, and Stellantis. www.soundhound.com
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