Hound
In the market for voice assistants it seems that not everything has been said yet. And it is that, although the three main companies and platforms have their respective proactive information or assistance services for any type of question, there is still room for other alternatives intelligent, powerful and very decisive. Or at least that's what the music app company SoundHound wants to demonstrate, which has developed its own voice assistance tool for users.It is called Hound and allows you to use natural language to perform any search or terminal function.
At the moment SoundHound has only presented it, offering users its beta or test version before taking it to the general public. Thus, it is necessary to receive a invitation after installing it to be able to access its functions, taking into account that at the moment it only works in English Many limitations in its first stage, but if it works as shown in its presentation, it could rival the great assistants of the moment such as Google Now , Apple Siri or Microsoft Cortana
As seen in its presentation video, Hound will act as a voice assistant for the user.Something that won't be too surprising if you already know the big three, since it allows you to perform terminal actions such as making a call, sending a message or establishing a date with just a voice command, or even interact and play In addition, it allowssearch the Internet any user query such as weather information, current data or any question that is asked out loud. So far nothing new.
What is surprising about Hound is its technology for recognizing and understanding what the user requests. Something that seems to owe to SoundHound, the music application from the same company that allows you to hunt everything that is playing, in the purest Shazam style, but also includes the user humsThus, in addition to being able to ask which hotels can be found near their location between a certain price per night, the user can chain several questions in a single query, adding information such as the day of entry they wish to reserve, whether it is a hotel with access for pets or even specify more details.All this without worrying about making a query each time or clarifying each question as it would be done in the usual way by writing each specific term. Something that offers a very high degree of naturalness to queries, without Hound losing detail of anything, and applying these criteria to your search to find just what each user searches.
All this through a simple application that is reminiscent of Google Now in appearance but that doesn't proactivity or knowing the user to inform him of what interests him before asking the question. At the moment it is in the testing phase in United States, although it is promising given the images seen. Now it only remains to be seen if it manages to be as effective as it has been proposed in its presentation. Now available on Android via Google Play and soon foriOS
