Co-founders Soundarya Rajinikanth VSV and Sunny Pokala announce the public beta launch of ‘Hoote’- India’s first
Co-founders Soundarya Rajinikanth VSV and Sunny Pokala announce the public beta launch of ‘Hoote’- India’s first voice-based social media platform for the World.
Filmmaker and entrepreneur Soundarya Rajinikanth VSV along with technocrat, serial entrepreneur and a global business leader Sunny Pokala, today announced the launch of their new venture Hoote’- the first voice-ba sed social networking platform to be launched out of India, for the world. Hoote will be made available in 15 nat ive Indian languages and 10 international languages. Being multilingual, it allows anyone who wants to be heard, to express themselves through their unique voice in the language of their choice. To use the Hoote app, all one has to do is simply record an audio message for upto 60 seconds and share it with the world. A unique feature in Hoote that allows users to further enhance their messages to a whole new cinematic experience is the option to select and add a BGM from our custom library. Our platform also assists in capturing the visual nuances of a voi ce message by providing the users an option to add an image of their choosing.
Soundarya Rajinikanth VSV, Co-founder of Hoote, says that as someone who comes from a creative arts backg round and has grown up listening some of the most powerful and meaningful voices on and off-screen, believes that voice is one of the most empowering and authentic ways to communicate and express one’s views and opin ions. She goes on to say that the idea came to her when her father began delivering critical communications by audio rather than text, and she saw what a difference it made to get the exact message he wanted to comm unic ate. She believes that Hoote can be used as a platform to broadcast and link the world’s most renowned voices, and also the voices of the common people both on important issues as well as to create powerful human relat ionships.
Sunny Pokala, co-founder of Hoote has extensive experience in developing novel technology products catering to millions of users. Notable products include Kavalan, a mobile citizen safety app in India and Securra, a disru ptive healthcare platform in New York. His vast experience and successful track record has helped develop Hoote into a robust platform of international standards.
Further describing the platform’s importance, Sunny Pokala elaborates on the relevance of the platform and fe els that the pandemic in the last year has only brought to the forefront the compulsion to stay socially con necte d, not only amongst close circles but globally and the resultant screen fatigue in trying to do so. He believes that Hoote will not only help address this fatigueby making it easier for users to express themselves but will also be come the preferred medium for celebrities, eminent professionals and common people, to make their voices he ard and express their views and opinions due to its advanced privacy, security features and its ability to cut across the language barriers.
Hoote is a cloud-native, mobile-first, vernacular platform that offers an authentic social media experience enab led by cutting edge cloud technologies to allow people all around the world to use their voices and interact with others. Hoote hopes to build a genuine social community where users are encouraged to be themselves without the fear of being judged.
While Hoote takes advantage of the growing use of voice-based and audio technologies in digital and social platforms throughout the world, it will be the first multilingual audio platform enabled by Al. With more and more people turning to voice as a medium for communication, voice will become the way people connect again.
