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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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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.

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

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Any plans for other languages and locales? I immediately noticed the temperature in F in the example about the weather in Lima. I think everybody there uses C with the exception of American tourists :-) Seriously, it looks a great product. Maybe it returns even too much data in the JSON. I wonder how to take advantage of all of that if I don't know what people are going to ask. They're going to ask silly questions just for fun even if I have a vertical app (example: a mortgage calculator), because this is not a web form with constrained input fields but a free form input. The numbers I get into the answer could be unrelated to mortgages. Do you have examples of best practices? Maybe just write and speak the answer? Thanks.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.
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