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Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

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Re: Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

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Post by frik »

johnm1019 wrote: post #9

There is clearly a knowledge graph coupled with this in addition to the speech recognition. Sorry, "meaning" recognition. I feel like there is an opportunity to connect the deep knowledge graph of Wolfram Alpha -- or that maybe Wolfram missed the ball by not connecting their graph in a more usable way.

I wonder if it is based on Freebase.com knowledge graph, which Google discontinued last month. http://www.freebase.com/ (and recently IBM has bought Blekko web search and knowledge graph engine as a replacement for Freebase to power their IBM Watson)

Re: Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

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Post by re »

joelrunyon wrote: post #10
dshankar wrote: post #5

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

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

"the capital of the country in which the Space Needle is located"

Re: Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

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Post by wutbrodo »

pbreit wrote: post #2

After owning Echo, Roku and Fire TV, I'm super-bullish on voice commands finally being ready for prime time. It's a terrific interface for home audio, TV and car audio. I've gotta think Apple will open up Siri to app developers sooner than later. Houndify looks interesting.

Definitely. I've been using voice commands in Android for about 5 years now (since ~2010) and I've consistently been shocked at how incredibly efficient an interface it is. The number of capabilities hooked up to voice control has only been increasing since then and it's been great.

Re: Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

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Post by reustle »

pmontra wrote: post #8
dshankar wrote: post #5

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

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

It feels like the video is sped up ever so slightly. Even the user is talking pretty quick.

Re: Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

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Post by frik »

dshankar wrote: post #5

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

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.

Re: Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anything

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Post by witty_username »

frik wrote: post #19
dshankar wrote: post #5

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

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 recognit…

> 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.

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