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Hound Internal Demo

Hound by SoundHound Inc. · 2.2M views · 2015-06-02 · 2:29

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SoundHound's CEO demos Hound, a voice assistant, handling fast compound natural language queries with context and detailed criteria. The video leaked before the product's official launch.

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HN viewers were impressed by its speed and saw it as a glimpse of the future of voice search; later it appears in hiring posts.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2015–2019

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dshankar · 2015-06 · Strong recommendation

You're probably skeptical (as I was) but watch this video demo of the Hound app: [VIDEO] That's insanely fast, compound natural language queries. I'm impressed.

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xedarius · 2015-12 · Recommendation

I love DDG but I think as the world turns away from document indexing and more toward intent based search, plus the ever increasing use of implicit data (gps location, speed of movement etc) - I can't see how DDG are going to grow. Ultimately search will end up with something a bit like Siri (but something that works). The hound demo (if real) is a very impressive glimpse of the future of search. For those who haven't seen it : [VIDEO]

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hobonumber1 · 2019-01 · Reference

SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - [LINK] I'm an Engineering Manager at SoundHound. We've raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a while back: [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK] If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.

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