SoundHound. (SOUN.US) 2025年第三季度业绩电话会
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SoundHound Inc. reported record revenue growth of 127% to $127 million, driven by strategic acquisitions, partnerships, and advancements in AI technologies. Key highlights include the acquisition of Interactions, successful deployment of Polaris, and significant deals in various industries. The company expects to achieve adjusted EBITDA profitability in 2025, with a focus on innovation and expanding market penetration.
会议速览
The call, moderated by the head of Investor Relations, opens with a reminder about forward-looking statements and non-GAAP measures. The CEO acknowledges the participants and transitions into the earnings discussion, emphasizing the importance of current information and the company's obligations regarding updates.
SoundHound highlights its pioneering role in AI, showcasing achievements from speech-to-meaning technology to Polaris, a multimodal model enhancing accuracy and cost-efficiency. With a focus on strategic execution and market readiness, the company has rapidly scaled, achieved record revenue, and transitioned clients from legacy systems, solidifying its position as a leader in conversational intelligence and agentic experiences.
SoundHound leverages strategic acquisitions to integrate businesses, replace legacy tech with in-house models, and foster innovation. The company's acquisition of Interactions, a leader in customer service orchestration, is expected to yield cost and revenue synergies, enhancing SoundHound's offerings in contact center and customer service solutions.
A significant deal with a Chinese company integrates AI into millions of smart devices for the Indian market. Automotive partnerships deepen with global sports car brands and Jeep vehicles. Financial services, energy, and retail sectors see new contracts and upsells. Restaurants adopt AI ordering solutions, expanding market leadership in the industry.
Voice Insights, our AI solution, garners strong interest, with early adopters in healthcare and insurance. Amelia 7 deployment expands, including deals with global insurers and IT services. Strategic partnerships with tech distributors and CRM AI specialists solidify our leadership in enterprise AI.
SoundHound introduces the Agentic Plus framework and Amelia 7 platform, enhancing conversational AI with deterministic automation and human escalation, achieving rapid market deployment and securing new enterprise clients across multiple industries.
Voice commerce is transforming convenience, from in-car food orders to smart TV integrations, with partnerships with tech giants and successful live trials. Anticipating 2026 market launch, this innovative solution represents a pivotal step in AI-driven mass adoption, showcasing robust growth and market recognition.
Discusses significant revenue growth, strategic investments in AI, and successful market expansion, emphasizing the company's competitive position in AI innovation and customer satisfaction improvements.
Discussed Q3 revenue increase, IoT success, diversified industry mix, and investments in AI and sales, noting margin improvements and operational efficiencies.
A company reflects on its journey through breakthrough science and commercialization, sharing financials, including losses, and expectations for future growth, profitability, and reinvestment in high-value areas, particularly in AI, aiming for near-breakeven profitability while capitalizing on market opportunities.
A Chinese robotics deal, non-humanoid in nature, promises double-digit million contributions over two to three years. The Interactions acquisition is expected to enhance verticals including automotive, tech services, retail, financial services, and healthcare, with an anticipated financial impact boosting future year expectations.
The dialogue highlights the company's transition from one-time license deals to a more recurring and outcome-based revenue model, emphasizing the benefits of integrating technology with deterministic flows to enhance customer outcomes and pricing strategies.
Discusses ongoing customer migration to Amelia 7, emphasizing growth, customer satisfaction, and planned migration paths. Highlights the majority of revenue as recurring, with details on SaaS, license sales, and outcome-based pricing trends in AI solutions.
Discusses the strategic focus on voice AI technology, emphasizing its application across multiple industries while managing limited resources through partnerships and prioritization.
The dialogue reveals a collaborative effort between OEMs and national/global brands in piloting and planning the launch of voice commerce in 2025, with significant progress already made. The speaker emphasizes the successful integration of voice AI and merchant experiences, expressing confidence in the upcoming production rollout, anticipated to be showcased further at CES.
Discusses competitive environment in enterprise AI, highlighting company's leadership due to 20 years of innovation, proprietary technology, and superior performance over competitors. Addresses pricing pressures and confidence in market position despite new entrants.
The dialogue explores the impact of technological shifts on pricing, emphasizing innovation as a key to achieving ASP expansion. It highlights the balance between competitive pricing and the value added through new technologies, particularly generative AI, which opens up opportunities for enhanced customer experiences and service offerings. The conversation underscores the industry's transition towards new pricing architectures, where companies leveraging real innovation can expect to see growth in average selling prices.
要点回答
Q:What are the updates on automotive projects involving voice assistants?
A:The company has begun to deepen its market penetration in the automotive sector and is working with a major sports car brand to develop a unique in-vehicle assistant personality. Additionally, they have rolled out their chat AI voice assistant in Europe for Jeep vehicles, and it has seen promising results with existing customers like Lucid Tug. The company has also expanded into the German market and signed deals with prominent telematics companies in India and a multinational commercial fleet vehicle company in Italy.
Q:What are the recent developments in the financial services and insurance sectors?
A:The company has continued to work with major global financial institutions, signing additional service deals and renewal contracts. They've also entered into a new enterprise technology deal with a prominent organization supporting credit unions in the US and signed a new contract with a large utilities company in the US. In insurance, they have expanded their partnership with a global insurance company and announced the deployment of the Amelia platform with a leading hospital system and a French insurer.
Q:What new products and solutions have been introduced in the healthcare and retail sectors?
A:The company has introduced a new product called Voice Insights, aimed at brands needing a precursor to full automation due to missing APIs and infrastructure. Voice Insights provides real-time analysis of customer and employee interactions to measure efficiency and satisfaction. In healthcare, they've partnered with a precision medicine provider and a hospital system to deploy the Amelia platform and renew their relationship with a leading health care company. They've also made progress with a major multinational brand in retail and consumer goods.
Q:How is the company expanding its partnerships and product offerings?
A:The company is aggressively expanding its product suites and customer engagement, evidenced by updates to the Amelia 7 platform and new partnerships with technology services distributors, CRM AI and workforce engagement management providers, and managed cybersecurity service companies. These partnerships are a result of the company's growing leadership in enterprise AI, and the deals include collaborations with major brands across various industries and new patents to leverage for innovation.
Q:What are the advancements in the voice commerce space?
A:The voice commerce solution has advanced to include features like voice ordering for various services and is set for full production in 2026. The company has partnered with multiple Oems and merchants and completed live voice orders from cars, with transactions being completed successfully. They are on track to make announcements early next year and are driving new conversations with smart TV manufacturers to enable in-home voice ordering through partnerships with tech platform giants.
Q:What are the company's plans for the upcomingCES?
A:The company plans to have a prominent presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, showcasing their solutions with participation from several partners.
Q:What is the significance of the company's results and their market position?
A:The company's strong results are significant as they indicate that large companies are turning to the company for AI solutions to meet their goals, and the company is at the forefront of addressing a massive market opportunity in AI.
Q:How is the company performing in the market and what market segments have shown strong growth?
A:The company is performing strongly in the market, having successfully delivered on scaling from financial services to healthcare, technology, and retail, in addition to their existing footprints in automotive and restaurants. Their voice and conversational AI suite has been embedded deeply into market leading services across these diverse sectors.
Q:What are the signs of improvement in the company's automotive business?
A:Signs of improvement in the company's automotive business include the momentum around their pillar II voice commerce solution and the diversification of their industry mix, which has reduced the impact of any single sector on their overall growth.
Q:What are the company's strategies for investment and growth?
A:The company is accelerating the adoption curve and customer realization of AI's massive benefits through aggressive investments to fortify and expand their competitive advantages while deepening customer relationships. This investment strategy is translating into go-to-market investments and product capability expansion.
Q:What were the company's financial results for the third quarter?
A:For the third quarter, the company's revenue was $40 million, up year-over-year. GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were both up from the prior quarter. GAAP and non-GAAP net loss per share were 3 cents in the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $14.5 million, and OIE (Other Income Expenses) was $7.1 million of income for the quarter.
Q:What approach is the company taking to ensure a fair migration path for all customers during the transition?
A:The company is being thoughtful and sensitive to the journeys of their customers, carefully managing the pace of onboarding to ensure interoperability with other AI platforms. They are seeing positive outcomes such as improved net promoter scores, customer satisfaction, and containment rate improvements.
Q:What is the percentage of recurring revenue, and what factors influence the revenue recognition in the automotive business?
A:The company's revenue is mostly recurring. In the automotive business, license recognition for voice capabilities in cars being shipped provides ongoing revenue as long as mega Oems continue to ship cars under the contract duration.
Q:How does the company handle revenue recognition for SaaS products and edge solutions?
A:Revenue for SaaS products is mainly recurring and fixed price up to certain levels of interactions, with pricing escalating to the next level if customer activity grows. Immediate revenue recognition occurs upon deploying edge solutions where the company passes over a license. The majority of revenue is recurring SaaS, but there is a diversification in the product suite, with more outcome-based trends as AI solutions deliver value aligned with the customer's economic interests.
Q:Can the company sustain growth across the various industry verticals mentioned in the release?
A:The company believes in its vision of enabling major shifts through voice AI that permits humans to interact with technology via natural conversations. This vision is gaining traction across multiple industries such as automotive, restaurants, healthcare, and financial services. The company's technology is leading in speech recognition and real-time understanding and conversation capabilities, which supports growth across these industry verticals.
Q:How does the company decide where to allocate attention and resources when expanding into different industry ecosystems?
A:The company focuses on its horizontal platform and the potential for widespread application across many industries. They are cautious when entering niche areas like workflow integrations and partner with companies that have a deeper presence in specific industries, like Samsung in restaurants and Square in appointment reservation systems.
Q:What is the company's stance on the competitive environment and their differentiation from other vendors?
A:The competitive environment is seen as attractive with various new and established competitors. The company believes it has a deep competitive moat due to 20 years of innovation and its own technology, leading to superior performance in production compared to new players using third-party APIs. The company's deep experience allows it to move swiftly from demo to production with high quality and offers models that beat competitors in accuracy, latency, and cost.
Q:Are there concerns about pricing pressure as the company enters new markets and adopts new technologies?
A:Pricing pressure is a concern as the company transitions from old technology to new, but the key is demonstrating innovation that provides value and pricing alignment. The company has shown that it can maintain or even increase prices by bringing innovations like generative AI to market, which can justify a higher cost due to the significant value it adds to the customer experience.






