Technology
SoundHound Inc. Introduces Hound, Unprecedented Speech Recognition + Natural Language Understanding, and the Houndify Developer Platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(Business Wire)–SoundHound Inc.®, a pioneering company in sound recognition and search technologies, ushers in a new era of mobile computing with the launch of Hound®. Hound is a mobile voice interface, downloadable as an app, which gives users the ability to speak naturally and get deep results to what they ask for, such as looking up the weather, placing a phone call, sending a text message, finding a hotel that matches their detailed criteria, navigating to an address, finding their flight status, checking the stock market, searching and playing music, and even playing interactive games.
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While older voice services use word and phrase detection to generate search results, Hound combines voice recognition and natural language understanding in real-time to deliver the fastest and most accurate results seen on a mobile voice service to-date. Hound is now in private beta for Android, with a launch on iOS coming soon.
