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.

JERUSALEM (AP) — An attempt by Israeli authorities to write a routine parking ticket in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem turned violent on Thursday as members of the community quickly gathered to protest, attacking and injuring 13 police officers, authorities said.

The violence reflected growing tensions between the Israeli authorities and the ultra-Orthodox, known as Haredim, as the government mulls plans to draft them into the military. Clashes have often broken out recently when Israeli authorities have entered the crowded and insular ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods.

Police said the clashes first broke out after an inspector tried to issue a parking ticket and was met with violence and threats. The police made one arrest. Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters soon arrived, trying to free the suspect, damaging police cars and throwing stones and eggs at the police, they said.

In response, police threw stun grenades, fired water cannons and beat protesters with batons, according to videos circulating on Israeli social media.

Residents accused the police of trying to arrest the man for failing to register for the draft — an accusation police denied.

Five policemen were brought to the hospital and several others were lightly injured. As of Thursday afternoon, police said they had arrested four people and an were investigating several others.

Photos circulating on Israeli social media showed an overturned car and vehicles with broken windshields.

Later on Thursday, ultra-Orthodox protesters blocked a major highway along Israel’s coast, police said. No violence was immediately reported.

When Israel was founded in 1948, a small number of gifted ultra-Orthodox scholars were granted exemptions from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jews. But with a push from politically powerful religious parties, those numbers have swelled over the decades.

Many secular Israelis — especially those who have served multiple rounds of duty in the latest war between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas group in Gaza — now support rolling back that exemption and drafting the ultra-Orthodox.

However, measures to draft the ultra-Orthodox have been met with staunch opposition and at times violence from religious protesters, who claim that serving in the military will destroy their way of life.

Roughly 1.3 million ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 13% of Israel’s population and oppose enlistment because they believe studying full time in religious seminaries is their most important duty.

Ultra Orthodox protesters clash with Israeli police during a violent disturbance in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police officers work to restore order during a violent disturbance by Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police shoot a water canon as they work to restore order during a violent disturbance by Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters run for cover from a gas grenade thrown by Israeli police during a violent disturbance in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police officers scuffle with young Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters during a violent disturbance in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)