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Soundhound Ai, Inc.

A maker of voice artificial intelligence, SoundHound AI builds the speech technology that lets car dashboards, restaurant drive-thrus, and other businesses understand spoken requests and answer them naturally. It started in 2005 as Melodis Corporation, whose Midomi app could identify songs people hummed or sang; that early "hound the sound" trick gave the company its name when it rebranded to SoundHound in 2010 before going public as SoundHound AI in 2022.