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You're probably skeptical (as I was) but watch this video demo of the Hound app: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea

You're probably skeptical (as I was) but watch this video demo of the Hound app: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg That's insanely fast, compound natural language queries. I'm impressed.

pmontra 11y ago
Maybe answers are spoken a bit too fast but that speed makes the demo more impressive.
- reustle 11y ago
  It feels like the video is sped up ever so slightly. Even the user is talking pretty quick.
- dexterdog 11y ago
  Just like how I listen to all of my podcasts between 1.8 and 2.2x I would want my phone's spoken responses to default to a high speed.
joelrunyon 11y ago
It got the Space Needle question wrong. It gave the answer for DC rather than Seattle.
- re 11y ago
  "the capital of the country in which the Space Needle is located"
  - joelrunyon 11y ago
    ah, oops.
    - cfj 11y ago
      Guess it has better speech recognition than you do ;)
frik 11y ago
The video is only 240p and quite shaky. As it is published by the SoundHound Inc. company, is this a marketing technique to make it look more amateurish? Such a low latency means the demo was done over Wifi in the SoundHound building - especially if the speech recognition runs on the server side. Or which speech recognition software does that demo app use? Nuance software based on the client? Android 5 voice recognition isn't that fast.
- witty_username 11y ago
  > As it is published by the SoundHound Inc. company, is this a marketing technique to make it look more amateurish? yes, if you don't scroll down it looks like it's some users demonstration of it.
- kuschku 11y ago
  I’ve tested the app on dial-up internet, and it answers almost immediately. So the question where the speech recognition happens isn’t easily answered.
  - ar7hur 11y ago
    How did you get invited? I'd love to test the app. With Natural Language we should be skeptical as long as all we have are canned demos.
    - superchink 11y ago
      You might be able to try signing up here: http://www.soundhound.com/hound# http://www.soundhound.com/hound#!

pmontra 11y ago

Maybe answers are spoken a bit too fast but that speed makes the demo more impressive.

reustle 11y ago
It feels like the video is sped up ever so slightly. Even the user is talking pretty quick.
dexterdog 11y ago
Just like how I listen to all of my podcasts between 1.8 and 2.2x I would want my phone's spoken responses to default to a high speed.

joelrunyon 11y ago

It got the Space Needle question wrong. It gave the answer for DC rather than Seattle.

re 11y ago
"the capital of the country in which the Space Needle is located"
- joelrunyon 11y ago
  ah, oops.
  - cfj 11y ago
    Guess it has better speech recognition than you do ;)

frik 11y ago

The video is only 240p and quite shaky. As it is published by the SoundHound Inc. company, is this a marketing technique to make it look more amateurish? Such a low latency means the demo was done over Wifi in the SoundHound building - especially if the speech recognition runs on the server side. Or which speech recognition software does that demo app use? Nuance software based on the client? Android 5 voice recognition isn't that fast.

witty_username 11y ago
> As it is published by the SoundHound Inc. company, is this a marketing technique to make it look more amateurish? yes, if you don't scroll down it looks like it's some users demonstration of it.
kuschku 11y ago
I’ve tested the app on dial-up internet, and it answers almost immediately. So the question where the speech recognition happens isn’t easily answered.
- ar7hur 11y ago
  How did you get invited? I'd love to test the app. With Natural Language we should be skeptical as long as all we have are canned demos.
  - superchink 11y ago
    You might be able to try signing up here: http://www.soundhound.com/hound# http://www.soundhound.com/hound#!