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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.
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.
1. This demo was likely created by an engineer or sales person with SoundHound. More impressive would be a demo by a third party journalist or reviewer without a vested interest.
2. The impressive speed probably won't scale to the millions of simultaneous users Siri, Google Now, and Cortana support (assuming audio is processed in the cloud, which I admittedly don't know for sure).
3. Obviously the demo uses phrases that work. I guarantee you an ordinary person will often get "Sorry, I didn't understand the question" or whatever SoundHound's equivalent is.
4. While it sounds impressive at first blush, nobody really cares how many days it is between next Tuesday and Christmas of 2025. And that happens to be not only useless, but also pretty easy to special-case in your expert system / AI logic. So how about a demo that answers the question: "How can you make a mushroom omelette without soggy mushrooms?"
Your digital voice assistant app is incompetent. ...bumbling idiots trying to outwit a fast talking rocket scientist. ...
hunched in the fetal position, thumb in mouth.
Do you have to be such a douche about it?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I take it you don't know what a homophone is so you relied on some website to check for you?
Because if you actually read what GP wrote you might notice that "waze" (which is not a dictionary word) sounds identical to "ways" (which is a dictionary word). Depending, of course, on how you pronounce ways. But a native English speaker (are you?) is almost certainly going to pronounce "waze" identically to "ways".
Whether or not this would actually result in a problem with the app being slashvertised is a different matter entirely. But I hope you have a somewhat better understanding of what homophones are and how this could be seen as a problem for such an application.
That's the real question and a true test of voice recognition software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Don't just game, Dungeoneer
population of capital of the country
And Washington DC is the capital of the United States, the country where the Space Needle is located.
What we have just learned is that SoundHound has better comprehension than some Slashdot commenters :)
Holy crap the video is impressive. It clearly parses phrased and dependent logical statements like " what is the population of the capitol of the country in which the space needle is located. " It alos parsed paragraph long multi-part questions. I was floored.
As for homophones, how do you (human) recognize them. Well you parse the logical context. If you are doing single word dictation homophones will always be a problem but for queries there's context. And the demo shows this thing can handle some staggering conditional contexts and long phrases. So I would guess that if your query is not ambiguous in the use of the word Waze, then this thing is approachi8ng a level where it will indeed get the right homophone.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Feel free to give it a try yourself:
https://play.google.com/store/...
Currently we are on an invite system, but a lot of people have received invites.
Yes I work for SoundHound ;)
The correct answer is a number around 650k. This program is smarter than multiple slashdot commenters.
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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.
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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
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