SoundHound · Rate Limits

Music Id

Rate limiting policy for the SoundHound Music Fingerprint Identification API. This is an enterprise API accessed by direct agreement with SoundHound. Rate limits and quotas are defined per contract and are not publicly disclosed.

Music Id is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for SoundHound on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Voice AI, Conversational AI, Music Recognition, Audio Intelligence, and Speech Recognition.

0 Limits
Voice AIConversational AIMusic RecognitionAudio IntelligenceSpeech RecognitionNatural Language Processing

Policies

Minimum Audio Duration
Queries require between 2 and 10 seconds of audio for reliable music fingerprint identification.
Latency
Sub-second identification latency for streamed audio requests.
Access
API access is available by contacting SoundHound directly. Evaluation requests should be directed to the SoundHound developer contact channel.

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