April 27, 2010 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SoundHound, the revolutionary sound search company, announced the launch of a new, free version of its popular mobile app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The free app includes five searches per month, and offers the same rich features and blazing fast music recognition as the premium app, SoundHound Infinity. The SoundHound App can identify recorded music as well as songs users sing or hum.
“Fans love that the SoundHound App helps them search, discover, and share music instantly,” said Keyvan Mohajer, CEO of SoundHound. “Our free app puts SoundHound in the hands of more users, allowing the magic of instant search and discovery to be shared across even more fans as a result.”
The existing premium application that millions of music fans already enjoy is now called SoundHound Infinity – a nod to its unlimited search and discovery – and designated with the ∞ symbol. The free app inherits the SoundHound name; music fans wanting more than five searches a month can easily upgrade to the SoundHound Infinity App from within the free application – and retain their history and bookmarks.
The SoundHound App has instant mobile music search and discovery. Features in both the SoundHound and SoundHound Infinity Apps include:
* Blazing fast music recognition. Fans can identify music playing from a speaker (radio, TV, films) in as little as four seconds.
* Sing & Hum music recognition. If fans can carry a tune, the SoundHound App can identify it.
* Voice-directed search. Fans simply speak a Title or Artist to explore and get results instantly, including links to video, discography, artist info and more.
* Instant sharing with integrated and customizable email, Facebook and Twitter options.
* What’s Hot, Underplayed, and being newly ID’d on SoundHound around the world.
* Lyrics, videos, tour dates, and other rich content.
* Integrated Pandora radio stations. Discover something new and cool on the SoundHound App and use Pandora to quickly create a new station around it.
The SoundHound App for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is available for free from the App Store or at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soundhound/id355554941?mt=8. The SoundHound Infinity App for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is available for $4.99 from the App Store or at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id284972998?mt=8.
About SoundHound
SoundHound delivers innovative technologies and compelling user experiences in sound recognition, revolutionizing the way people interact with connected devices.
SoundHound’s breakthrough Sound2Sound technology searches sound against sound, bypassing traditional sound to text conversion techniques even when searching text databases. Sound2Sound has resulted in numerous breakthroughs including the world’s fastest music recognition, the world’s only viable singing and humming search, and instant-response large scale speech recognition systems.
SoundHound has produced multiple award-winning applications in music and voice search on platforms including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices. SoundHound also has numerous partnerships with global companies, including leading device manufacturers and operators.
Headquartered in San Jose, California, SoundHound is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, including Global Catalyst Partners, TransLink Capital and Walden Venture Capital. For more information, visit www.sound-hound.com.
Contacts:
SoundHound Media Relations
June Parina, +1-415-321-1872
press@sound-hound.com
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