SoundHound AI Joins Forces with Tencent Intelligent Mobility to Bring World Class Conversational AI to the Intelligent Cockpits of Global Auto Brands

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 21, 2025--

SoundHound AI, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOUN), a global leader in voice artificial intelligence, today announced that it will be working with Tencent Intelligent Mobility, which is part of Tencent’s Cloud and Smart Industries Group (CSIG) business, to bring its world-class voice and conversational AI capabilities to Tencent Intelligent Mobility's cloud-based solutions for the automotive industry. The collaboration will enable Tencent Intelligent Mobility to deliver dynamic, localized user experiences to automotive players across geographies that are looking to provide end users with seamless handsfree access to a range of in-vehicle applications.

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Tencent Intelligent Mobility is working on integrating SoundHound Chat AI Automotive, the most advanced in-vehicle voice assistant on the market, to give drivers and passengers access to a range of apps, car controls, and entertainment domains (including major audiovisual streaming services) – as well as LLM-powered generative AI responses – just through natural speech.

SoundHound’s conversational voice intelligence is capable of handling complex conversational questions and intelligently filtering responses to ensure the user gets relevant, useful responses – whether they are asking for flight times, navigation, sports scores, or more detailed information like travel recommendations or local history. The company’s proprietary arbitration technology also works to help automakers eliminate the risk associated with AI hallucinations and LLM-generated misinformation.

Users can ask detailed questions and continue the conversation, seamlessly interacting with external knowledge sources and in-vehicle controls interchangeably. For example:

“We’re excited to be working with Tencent Intelligent Mobility to bring their vision for a dynamic, intuitive infotainment platform to life,”said Tom Park, Vice President of Business Development, Asia at SoundHound AI.“Our voice AI will play a critical role in giving drivers safe, hands-free access to a vast range of voice-activated content, changing the way that drivers and passengers interact with their vehicles and creating the intelligent in-vehicle experience of the future.”

“We’re thrilled to explore new user experience in the intelligent cockpit leveraging SoundHound AI’s sophisticated in-vehicle voice assistant powered by LLM,”said Dr. Pei Shen, General Manager of Strategy at Tencent Intelligent Mobility.“We share the vision of SoundHound AI to bring digital content and digital services to drivers and passengers in a safe and intuitive way.”

This partnership between SoundHound AI and Tencent Intelligent Mobility demonstrates the commitment on behalf of both companies to providing localized, high-quality voice AI solutions for a vast range of global markets. Currently, SoundHound provides solutions to a range of automakers globally in over 25 languages.

SoundHound will participate in the 2025 TIME DAY, Tencent Intelligent Mobility Ecosystem Day, on April 22, 2025. Tom Park, the company’s VP of Asia-Pacific Business Development, Automotive, will join the “Globalization Deep-dive” Sub-forum panel to discuss how building local ecosystems can drive global growth.

In addition, Park will deliver a keynote at the forum “Navigating the AI Frontier: Opportunities and Challenges for the Automotive Industry in the AI Era,” co-hosted by the Shanghai Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT Shanghai) and Tencent Cloud. His talk, titled “Voice AI Empowering Intelligent Mobility: How Voice AI Can Enhance Mobility Services and the User Experience,” will take place on April 23 from 15:45 to 15:55.

Learn more about SoundHound AI’s Automotive solutions: www.soundhound.com/voice-ai-solutions/automotive/.

About SoundHound AI

SoundHound (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in conversational intelligence, offers voice and conversational AI solutions that let businesses offer incredible experiences to their customers. Built on proprietary technology, SoundHound’s voice AI delivers best-in-class speed and accuracy in numerous languages to product creators and service providers across retail, financial services, healthcare, automotive, smart devices, and restaurants via groundbreaking AI-driven products like Smart Answering, Smart Ordering, Dynamic Drive-Thru, and Amelia AI Agents. Along with SoundHound Chat AI, a powerful voice assistant with integrated Generative AI, SoundHound powers millions of products and services, and processes billions of interactions each year for world class businesses.

SoundHound AI will be working with Tencent Intelligent Mobility to bring its world-class voice and conversational AI capabilities to its cloud-based solutions for the automotive industry.

PHOENIX (AP) — The next presidential election is three years away, but Turning Point USA already knows it wants Vice President JD Vance as the Republican nominee.

Erika Kirk, leader of the powerful conservative youth organization, endorsed him on opening night of its annual AmericaFest convention, drawing cheers from the crowd.

But the four-day gathering revealed more peril than promise for Vance or any other potential successor to President Donald Trump, and the tensions on display foreshadow the treacherous waters that they will need to navigate in the coming years. The “Make America Great Again” movement is fracturing as Republicans begin considering a future without Trump, and there is no clear path to holding his coalition together as different factions jockey for influence.

“Who gets to run it after?" asked commentator Tucker Carlson in his speech at the conference. “Who gets the machinery when the president exits the scene?”

Vance, who has not said whether he will run for president, is Turning Point's closing speaker Sunday, appearing at the end of a lineup that includes U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Donald Trump Jr.

Erika Kirk, who took over as Turning Point's leader when her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated, said Thursday that the group wanted Vance "elected for 48 in the most resounding way possible.” The next president will be the 48th in U.S. history.

Turning Point is a major force on the right, with a nationwide volunteer network that can be especially helpful in early primary states, when candidates rely on grassroots energy to build momentum.

The endorsement carried “at least a little bit of weight” for 20 year-old Kiara Wagner, who traveled from Toms River, New Jersey, for the conference.

“If someone like Erika can support JD Vance, I can too,” Wagner said.

Vance was close with Charlie Kirk. After Kirk's assassination on a college campus in Utah, the vice president flew out on Air Force Two to collect Kirk's remains and bring them home to Arizona. The vice president helped uniformed service members carry the casket to the plane.

The Republican Party’s identity has been intertwined with Trump for a decade. Now that he is constitutionally ineligible to run for reelection, the party is starting to ponder a future without him at the helm.

So far, it looks like settling that question will require a lot of fighting among conservatives. Turning Point featured arguments about antisemitism, Israel and environmental regulations, not to mention rivalries between leading commentators.

Carlson said the idea of a Republican “civil war” was “totally fake.”

“There are people who are mad at JD Vance, and they’re stirring up a lot of this in order to make sure he doesn’t get the nomination," he said. Carlson describe Vance as “the one person” who subscribes to the “core idea of the Trump coalition,” which Carlson said was “America first.”

Vance appeared to have the edge as far as Turning Point attendees are concerned.

“It has to be JD Vance because he has been so awesome when it comes to literally any question,” said Tomas Morales, a videographer from Los Angeles. He said "there’s no other choice.”

Trump has not chosen a successor, though he has spoken highly of both Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, even suggesting they could form a future Republican ticket. Rubio has said he would support Vance.

Asked in August whether Vance was the “heir apparent,” Trump said “most likely.”

“It’s too early, obviously, to talk about it, but certainly he’s doing a great job, and he would be probably favorite at this point,” he said.

Any talk of future campaigns is complicated by Trump's occasional musings about seeking a third term.

“I’m not allowed to run," he told reporters during a trip to Asia in October. "It’s too bad.”

Attendees sit in prayer during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Attendees observe the National Anthem during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Attendees applaud during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)