SoundHound recently unveiled a "Hound", new voice recognition app., for iPhone and Android users. When listening to the radio or humming a song, the app provides a preview, cover art, album details, lyrics, videos, tour dates and an option to buy the song instantly.

SoundHound, formerly known as Midomi, which pioneered a voice-based search technology for mobile devices, has gained raves as it provides a better job in recognizing music than competitors like Shazam. SoundHound, with a technology that bypasses traditional sound to text conversion techniques, claims to have produced that the world's fastest music recognition, the world's only viable singing and humming search, and instant-response large scale speech recognition systems.

SoundHound's ambitions though do not end with song detection. The company aims to expand the Hound application to other categories. An executive for the San Jose, California-based company said they voice-based commands will in the not-too-distant future replace touchscreens as the primary way to use mobile media devices.

With such an expansion, SoundHound aims to compete with Google's voice search devices and the Apple-owned Siri Assistant.