SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flipagram, the largest mobile video creators network, and SoundHound Inc., the leading innovator in voice recognition, natural language understanding, and sound search technologies, today announced a cross-platform integration, including the first Flipagram “Create Music Video” partnership. As Flipagram’s premier integration partner, SoundHound has added “Create Music Video” buttons within SoundHound song pages, allowing fans to create Flipagram videos from music identified or searched for using the SoundHound app. This also enables all Flipagram users to explore SoundHound’s artist, album and song information and related content, providing a richer experience for audiences of both apps.
Additionally, SoundHound is providing custom music data to the Flipagram platform, curating weekly charts showcasing the hottest trending tracks. Flipagram’s audience will have direct access to this content, making it easy to add the top SoundHound’ed songs to their Flipagram music videos.
“Flipagram is thrilled to be working with SoundHound, the most innovative source for music search and discovery, as our first music integration partner,” said Farhad Mohit, Co-Founder and CEO of Flipagram. “Through major distribution and content relationships with platforms like SoundHound, Flipagram continues to pioneer new social use cases for music and video.”
“We are very pleased to be collaborating with Flipagram, one of the industry’s pioneers in mobile music, video and social distribution,” said Keyvan Mohajer, SoundHound Inc.’s Founder and CEO. “With our iconic music recognition, exclusive Sing/Hum search technology, as well as our new Natural Language Speech Recognition triggered completely hands-free with ‘OK Hound’, the SoundHound app delivers a music search, discovery, and play experience unmatched, and now we’re enabling fast and joyful ways to create Flipagram music videos.”
To date, more than 200 million users have created over half a billion Flipagram video stories, making Flipagram the most popular mobile creators app worldwide. As the only app with global music licensing deals, enabling the free use of tens of millions of 60-second song clips from top music publishers and labels, Flipagram is uniquely positioned to enable anyone with a smartphone to tell their stories and express their interests and affinities by pairing the perfect music with personal photos and videos.
SoundHound is the most immersive music search, discovery and play experience, with over 300 million global users. The mobile app is known for its fast music recognition, ability to recognize sing/hum searches, and the LiveLyrics® feature. SoundHound Inc. recently integrated Speech-to-Meaning™ technology from the Houndify™ platform into the app. Saying the phrase “OK Hound” activates voice search mode and uses the most advanced natural language technology available on mobile. This makes music search hands-free, fast and delightful, enabling music fans to simply say what music content they want to experience within the SoundHound app by voice search and command.
Flipagram will expand its partner program with other leading innovators through 2016 and beyond. Inquiries about Flipagram’s Music program should be sent to biz@flipagram.com.
To download SoundHound for iOS or Android, visit http://www.soundhound.com. To learn more about Hound, or to download for iOS or Android, visit http://www.soundhound.com/hound. For more information or to get started with the Houndify platform, visit http://www.houndify.com.
ABOUT FLIPAGRAM:
Everyone has stories worth telling. Flipagram’s mission is to give everyone the power to create and share amazing immersive video stories with music that can inspire, entertain and inform. Flipagrams (Flips) are easy to create, fun to consume and by allowing photos, videos and music to tell the story, Flips transcend language, giving people all over the world the ability to share their own stories and to have a powerful voice. With tens of millions of users monthly worldwide and growing, Flipagram is a go-to platform for musical artists, influencers, brands and millions of ordinary people looking to tell stories in an authentic way that resonates and inspires action. Flipagram is fully licensed to allow music use in its videos via agreements with top record companies including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music, Merlin and The Orchard—and music publishers, including Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG, Warner/Chappell, and the NMPA. Flipagram is available on iOS, Android, Amazon and Windows platforms.
ABOUT SOUNDHOUND:
SoundHound Inc. turns sound into understanding and actionable meaning. We believe in enabling humans to interact with the things around them in the same way we interact with each other: by speaking naturally to mobile phones, cars, TVs, music speakers, coffee machines, and every other part of the emerging 'connected' world. Our latest product, Hound, leverages our speech-to-meaning technology to showcase a groundbreaking smartphone experience. Our SoundHound product applies our technology to music, enabling people to discover, explore, and share the music around them, and even find the name of that song stuck in their heads by singing or humming. And through the Houndify platform, we empower developers to be part of the Speech-to-Meaning revolution.
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EDITOR’S NOTES:
Additional Flipagram company background = http://onforb.es/1MxXMjn
Additional SoundHound company background = http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/soundhound-voice/#QiCvL5OmtsqX
Screenshots of SoundHound + Flipagram integration: http://bit.ly/2aKLHyK
