SoundHound AI, Inc. announced that it has joined the Toast Partner Ecosystem. This integration will introduce SoundHound for Restaurants as a voice technology provider to restaurants using Toast's point-of-sale system (POS). It will allow restaurants to accept voice orders over the phone and transmit the order directly to Toast's platform.

This integration also helps restaurants to take more orders and answer simple questions about business hours and location directions automatically. Staff can focus on the service that they provide to guests dining in or grabbing takeout. The SoundHound for Restaurants voice assistant can be deployed by any restaurant to seamlessly take food and drink orders over the phone, via menu kiosks or at the drive-thru.

Its sophisticated technology learns the menu of each business and can answer questions, accept modifications and even upsell, helping the restaurant process more orders quickly and efficiently. SoundHound's advanced system uses patented voice AI that can understand natural human speech. This way, a customer doesn't have to modify their language to interact with software, they can just speak as they would to another person.

Toast is a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform purpose-built for the entire restaurant community. It works with integration partners in its Toast Partner Ecosystem, a curated portfolio of more than 180 partners who deliver specialized technology and services to help restaurant operators streamline sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. SoundHound offers its voice AI technology to a range of world-class brands, including Hyundai, Pandora, Snap, VIZIO, LG and Mercedes-Benz.

Through SoundHound, each of these companies can offer voice technology that is built from the ground up and optimized for human speech. This means they can easily tackle complex use cases that go beyond basic search functionalities – like restaurant food ordering – providing a dynamic and robust solution where other voice technology companies have struggled. With SoundHound technology, customers can speak fluently without worrying about turn-taking or wake words.

They can also verbally modify and edit their order with ease, just as they would in any other ordering scenario.