Soundhound AI has now announced its partnership with Perplexity AI, which will bring the power of dynamic AI search to all voice assistant devices
Highlights:
- SoundHound AI collaborated with Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine to integrate search abilities into their Chat AI used in voice assistants.
- This is the first of its kind- The first voice assistant to combine AI capabilities for real-world applications.
- This partnership makes AI extremely accessible while giving Perplexity access to a broader market.
SoundHound’s partnership with Perplexity
SoundHound’s independent voice AI platform connects people to brands through customized conversational experiences like voice-enabled products, services, and apps while giving companies access to their valuable data and analytics for greater control.
SoundHound AI’s platform can understand speech and respond in 25 languages, including regional accents and language variations.
They offer products like Wake words, Automatic speech recognition, and natural language understanding. Its standout product however is the text-to-speech model. It is the first voice assistant to combine AI capabilities with real-world systems.
The integration of SoundHound with Perplexity adds source-based real-world search capability to its AI chat. Perplexity is an alternative to traditional search engines, where you can directly pose your questions and receive concise, accurate answers.
We’re partnering with @SoundHound (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice AI. Together, we're bringing the power of real-time web search to voice assistants across cars, TVs, IoT devices, and more! pic.twitter.com/UbtldavdFD
— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) May 9, 2024
This advanced QA engine will be integrated with the AI voice chat feature that Soundhound offers. Any AI assistant powered by SoundHound will be able to search for answers to web queries in real-time and can be used in any device from IoT home devices to car voice assistants, TVs, and more.
Here is what they said in the official press release:
“Through this integration with SoundHound’s Chat AI assistant, we’re one step closer to our goal of making Perplexity available to everyone across every device they use,” said Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity AI. “With the growing popularity of voice AI, we’re allowing users to more easily access the information they need, when they need it.”
Mike Zagorsek, Chief Operations Officer at SoundHound AI
Take the example of cooking in the kitchen. Users can query the current prices of required ingredients, the shops nearby that sell them and currently cheaper alternatives, all without touching a keyboard. Amazing, isn’t it?
Another unique feature of this partnership is the incorporation of proprietary arbitration technology that is developed to identify the most appropriate responses, which reduces the possibility of a model “hallucinating”. Hallucinations are a major issue in almost all static LLM chatbots where the model responds with made-up inaccurate facts.
Reduction of hallucinations is a major breakthrough for the reliable use of AI in real-world applications.
However, SoundHound has not yet clarified exactly which LLMs from Perplexity it uses.
What is the significance of this collaboration?
SoundHound is a widely used service across multiple industries, and adding AI-powered voice capabilities adds immense value to the product. Their chat AI will be able to provide up-to-date responses whenever and wherever users need simply with a sentence.
This level of smart assistants is making SoundHound AI chat one of the strongest AI-powered voice assistants, comparable to Alexa and Google Home. Not just that, the strategic partnership offers Perplexity AI the chance to greatly widen its reach, taking it closer to its goal of making Perplexity search available on any device users may need.
With OpenAI gearing up to release its own AI search engine, this collaboration strengthens the position of Perplexity as a top-of-the-line AI search engine.
Conclusion
The partnership between Perplexity and SoundHound actively involves AI in the daily lives of people. It increases the accessibility to AI like never before, enabling accurate results within seconds, no matter if you’re at home or travelling. In a world where AI voice assistants are on the rise, this gives SoundHound a competitive edge!
