Hound Internal Demo - Better than Siri, Google and Cortana combined

[Nal]

now if it can control your phone like google now can then its a steal
its great saying "set a timer for 30 seconds" or anything along those lines and it opens the timer app

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[Renekar]

the most amazing piece of technology, recorded in 240p!

[Fennis]

this is stupid

it's not actually useful

you are deluding yourselves

[Headcrab Zombie]

I'm more interested in how they got the speech recognition so accurate
tried some voice stuff at work and it was just so full of inaccuracies

[otto-san]

this is stupid

it's not actually useful

you are deluding yourselves

idk if this is serious, but is it not impressive that this kind of voice recognition and interpretation exists? like at the very least this is a great show of those technologies

[Headcrab Zombie]

idk if this is serious, but is it not impressive that this kind of voice recognition and interpretation exists? like at the very least this is a great show of those technologies

yeah it can be used for other, more useful stuff

[Fennis]

idk if this is serious, but is it not impressive that this kind of voice recognition and interpretation exists? like at the very least this is a great show of those technologies

yes, that is impressive. i am a linguistics major and one of my professors from last semester is working on natural language processing and this level of recognition. but the actual work the thing is doing is very simple computational work, so it doesn't seem insanely useful in that respect.

[Pecon]

I'm more interested in how they got the speech recognition so accurate
tried some voice stuff at work and it was just so full of inaccuracies

Cortana seems to currently be the leader in interpreting what you are saying most accurately, but Cortana is quite a bit slower and doesn't seem to have nearly as much built-in features for just figuring out things.

[ultimamax]

yes, that is impressive. i am a linguistics major and one of my professors from last semester is working on natural language processing and this level of recognition. but the actual work the thing is doing is very simple computational work, so it doesn't seem insanely useful in that respect.

Well it's not the computational work that's supposed to be impressive. It's that Hound is able to do voice recognition in an impressive way (e.g context, details, multiple prompts)

I have been to a demo of Cortana at Microsoft Chicago. They focused on her ability to understand language, it was very impressive but much slower than this. (Not unbearably slow on its own, but compared to this)

[Georges]

IT'S STILL NOT JARVIS

[dargereldren]

Damn, my phone's too (point three) old for this.

[Pngu12970]

im not in the us so i cant use it anyway
damn

[portify]

Cortana is quite a bit slower

This is mainly because Hound runs the audio recording, speech recognition and language brown townysis simultaneously (as you speak), so when you're done speaking it's already done understanding you.

im not in the us so i cant use it anyway
damn

I'm not in the US and I've been using it a lot yesterday?

[McJob]

I don't see any need for speech recognition outside of being a fancy gimmick.

[Pecon]

This is mainly because Hound runs the audio recording, speech recognition and language brown townysis simultaneously (as you speak), so when you're done speaking it's already done understanding you.

Cortana does the speech recognition on-board and while speaking as well. Of the three 'main' assistants it's the only one that doesn't work off of sending a sample to a server to process. The reason why it's slower is something else, possibly in part because the Windows phone flagships mostly don't have the same level of hardware as the Android flagships.