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SoundHound Joins Forces With ChowNow To Ensure Restaurants Never Miss A Call
AI-driven Smart Answering service responds to customer queries via voice or SMS SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nAI-driven Smart Answering service responds to customer queries via voice or SMS\n\n\n SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nSoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice artificial intelligence, today announced it is joining forces with ChowNow, the leading online ordering and marketing platform designed to support independent restaurants, to enable restaurants to answer and respond to every inbound customer call.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230829760942/en/SoundHound Joins Forces With ChowNow To Ensure Restaurants Never Miss A Call (Graphic: Business Wire)\nUsing SoundHound’s new Smart Answering service, all restaurants on ChowNow will now have the option to add a new capability that lets them handle inbound customer queries via a voice assistant or SMS, meaning they won’t have to choose between answering the phone and serving in-house customers.\n\n\nBuilt on SoundHound’s powerful voice AI platform, the Smart Answering system seamlessly uploads and assimilates company website information. It then uses SoundHound’s advanced speech recognition and natural language understanding – leveraging Generative AI – to give tailored, conversational responses to customer phone queries about menu items, opening hours, and other frequently asked questions.\n\n\nIf customers want to place an order, Smart Answering will send them an SMS that routes them to the restaurant’s ChowNow ordering page where they can make their selections – allowing busy restaurant staff to focus during peak periods.\n\n\n\"When we say that we help independent restaurants, we mean more than simply saving them money. We’re helping them streamline operations, create more bandwidth, and ultimately, forge stronger connections with their customers,\" said Eric Jaffe, ChowNow Co-founder and COO. \"What we love about SoundHound is how its technology helps achieve all of the above, giving restaurants an accessible, seamless way to increase their order volume so that they can dedicate their energy to building a better customer experience.”\n\n\nThe fully-automated agent can also respond using custom answers or actions – responses that facilitate reservations and more by sending a relevant link via SMS, taking a message, or routing the call to a member of staff on another numb...