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Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition
MojoKid writes: Your digital voice assistant app is incompetent. Yes, Siri can give you a list of Italian restaurants in the area, Cortana will happily look up the weather, and Google Now will send a text message, if you ask it to. But compared to Hound, the newest voice search app on the block, all three of the aforementioned assistants might as well be bumbling idiots trying to outwit a fast talking rocket scientist. At its core, Hound is the same type of app — you bark commands or ask questions about any number of topics and it responds intelligently. And quickly. What's different about Hound compared to Siri, Cortana, and Google Now is that it's freakishly fast and understands complex queries that would have the others hunched in the fetal position, thumb in mouth. Check out the demo. It's pretty impressive.
Nah, people actually use Baidu services. Nobody uses this crap, hence the Slashvertisement. That's what Siri told me anyway. Cortana just giggled.
Could you suck SoundHound's cock a little harder? This is the most shameless bullshit I've seen all day, and I just watched Kayne West talk for 30 seconds.
"And brace yourself for robotic surveys and sales calls that sound uncannily like real people."
How about an app to answer robotic surveys in a way that sounds uncannily like it is being answered by a real person?! AI's asking AI's questions... surely this feedback loop would result in sentience... and fury. Perhaps this is the true origin of Skynet?
That's the real question and a true test of voice recognition software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Don't just game, Dungeoneer
"What is the population of capital of the country in which Space Needle is located?"
Hound correctly surmises that he's asking for the population of Washington, DC...
The Space Needle is in Seattle.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
What we have just learned is that SoundHound has better comprehension than some Slashdot commenters :)
The correct answer is a number around 650k. This program is smarter than multiple slashdot commenters.
Remember, You are unique...just like everyone else.
Gentlemen it cannot be understated just how morose and purile our competitors are. When gazing into the sound runes to build our auditory stage of power and wisdom to obey your every utterance, we ensure the glyphs we've created in the language our tribes wrote millennia ago are in fact purified in the basking glow. this glow, which emanates from the third eyes of our laureate engineering continuum is a holy projection of the very notion of every sound that could be or has ever been uttered from the mouths of mankind. Siri, the cumbersome blind shitlord of the tortured mac user, is no more a competitor to our brand than an idle pebble on a playground. Google itself, we have determined through our pure truth, is to sound and hounds no more distinguished than a window sucking illiterate toddler mumbling nonsense in the corner of a cut rate kindergarten in a rough side of town.
Good people go to bed earlier.
It's not an empire, because it doesn't have an emperor.
It's not a kingdom, because it doesn't have a king.
It's not a principality, because it doesn't have a prince.
So it must be a country, because it has plenty of
Not everything that can be measured matters; Not everything that matters can be measured.
Yeah, we're called British.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"