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SoundHound AI Inc (SOUN) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for SOUN, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 2 pieces · newest: Dossier, “Agentic Application Software: The SaaSpocalypse Map” (2026-02-27)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where SOUN appears in the diary — 2 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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Long reads

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 1.01 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How SOUN has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 1.01 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), SoundHound AI Inc moved 1.01% on average · correlation 0.13 · higher than 87% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.93 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −2.86% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +1.50% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Software - Application · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Software - Application · US

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against SOUN on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — SoundHound AI Inc

SOUN in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
SoundHound AI builds voice recognition and conversational software that other companies embed as spoken assistants inside their own products. Its Houndify platform gives developers tools for speech recognition, language understanding and text-to-speech, letting them build custom voice interfaces. It also sells ready-made assistants, such as Chat AI and Smart Ordering, aimed at restaurants, carmakers and customer-service teams. Its customers sit in automotive, television, connected devices and hospitality, across markets including the United States, Korea, France, Japan and Germany. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Where it sits in the stack
SoundHound AI holds no seat in our Rubin index, the diary's build-out score for the AI supply chain, so it belongs only to the wider software universe we follow. In the diary's application-software dossiers it sits in the voice-first agent sleeve, the group of tools that let a spoken exchange replace a screen or a menu. Restaurants, carmakers and call centres are the customers of this sleeve, buying voice assistants as a front end to their existing systems.
Who it is priced against
Our index has not built a peer group for this name; the comparison the market draws is with Cerence, another supplier of voice software to carmakers, alongside the built-in assistants from Amazon and Google that it competes against inside larger platforms.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
SoundHound AI appears twice in the diary's application-software and infrastructure dossiers, named as a voice-agent supplier to restaurants and automotive, but it carries no index seat and no Closelooknet score, so its scoring is still being built.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether voice-first assistants move from pilot features into paid, renewing contracts across restaurants and automotive, which would test whether this software layer earns durable revenue rather than one-off deals.

SoundHound AI Inc (SOUN) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by Piper Sandler, 2026-09-22

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for SOUN from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Piper Sandler — target 6 from 7 Target cut to $6 from $7 (-2.8% to spot) 2026-09-22

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is SoundHound AI Inc (SOUN)?

SoundHound AI Inc trades as SOUN on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is SOUN in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — SoundHound AI Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does SOUN trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -8.8% vs the 50-day and -23.8% vs the 200-day average, 72.7% below the 52-week high and +7.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does SoundHound AI Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year SoundHound AI Inc had a beta of 1.01 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 87% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −2.86% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about SoundHound AI Inc?

SoundHound AI Inc appears in 2 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Dossier: Agentic Application Software: The SaaSpocalypse Map (2026-02-27); Dossier: Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration Layer (2026-02-24). What Closelooknet said most recently: SoundHound AI SOUN ~$5B Voice AI agents Conversational AI for restaurants, automotive, customer service — voice-first agent layer Mid-cap. (Dossier, 2026-02-27). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does SoundHound AI Inc do?

SoundHound AI builds voice recognition and conversational software that other companies embed as spoken assistants inside their own products. Its Houndify platform gives developers tools for speech recognition, language understanding and text-to-speech, letting them build custom voice interfaces. It also sells ready-made assistants, such as Chat AI and Smart Ordering, aimed at restaurants, carmakers and customer-service teams. Our index has not built a peer group for this name; the comparison the market draws is with Cerence, another supplier of voice software to carmakers, alongside the built-in assistants from Amazon and Google that it competes against inside larger platforms.

Where does SoundHound AI Inc sit in the AI build-out?

SoundHound AI holds no seat in our Rubin index, the diary's build-out score for the AI supply chain, so it belongs only to the wider software universe we follow. In the diary's application-software dossiers it sits in the voice-first agent sleeve, the group of tools that let a spoken exchange replace a screen or a menu. Restaurants, carmakers and call centres are the customers of this sleeve, buying voice assistants as a front end to their existing systems. SoundHound AI appears twice in the diary's application-software and infrastructure dossiers, named as a voice-agent supplier to restaurants and automotive, but it carries no index seat and no Closelooknet score, so its scoring is still being built.

What has Wall Street done on SoundHound AI Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on SoundHound AI Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Piper Sandler on 2026-09-22 (target 6 from 7). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SOUN, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

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