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White Castle is just one in a long line of restaurant chains toying with drive-thrus powered by voice-recognition AI. Chains such as Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Checkers & Rally's have all tested or introduced voice AI drive-thrus. AdvertisementBut voice AI drive-thrus are far from achieving widespread adoption. Last year, restaurant-tech company Presto Automations revealed in an SEC filing that over 70% of its voice AI orders required assistance from off-site human workers. AdvertisementIf customers don't want to order using the voice AI system, they can ask to speak to a human, he said.
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  + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
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Investors may want to keep an eye on this artificial intelligence voice-and-speech recognition stock with ties to Nvidia . Shares of SoundHound AI have surged almost 170% this year and nearly 347% in February alone as investors bet on new applications for the booming technology trend that has taken Wall Street by storm. SOUN YTD mountain SoundHound shares in 2024 While the Nvidia investment isn't new news for investors and analysts, it does reinforce SoundHound's value proposition. "With voice enabled units expected to grow to 70% of shipments by 2026, this represents a significant growth opportunity, in our view," he added. He estimates an $11 billion total addressable market when accounting for the immediate opportunities from quick-service restaurants and original equipment manufacturers.
Persons: Dan Ives, Ives, SoundHound, Ladenburg Thalmann's Glenn Mattson, Krispy, Davidson's Gil Luria, Cantor Fitzgerald's Brett Knoblauch, Wainwright's Scott Buck Organizations: Nvidia, Wedbush Securities Locations: Krispy Kreme, Jersey
Checkers & Rally'sLast year, Checkers & Rally's became one of the first big chains to implement widespread use of AI-powered voice assistants. Out of the 803 Checkers and Rally's restaurants, voice AI was live in 390 as of August. AdvertisementAdvertisementSoundHound, best known as a music-recognition app, has spent years perfecting its conversational voice AI bots. Sister burger chains Carl's Jr. and Hardee's also announced plans to test Presto's AI voice bots this year. Hardee's and Carl's Jr. are also testing voice AI bots by OpenCity.
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AI-powered voice bots are gaining steam among fast-food chains. White Castle is rolling out SoundHound's bots to 100 drive-thru lanes by the end of 2024. Here are 8 fast-food chains adding drive-thru voice bots amid labor challenges. White Castle said this week it was rolling out SoundHound's AI-powered voice bots to 100 drive-thru lanes by the end of 2024. The fast-food burger chain, which has been experimenting with AI-powered drive-thru tech since 2020, joins seven other national chains using conversational bots to process drive-thru orders.
Organizations: Service, National Restaurant Association Locations: Wall, Silicon
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