Can Hound app beat Siri, Cortana, and Google?

Talking to your gadgets and gears has become part of the modern culture. I’m not referring to cases where you talk to someone on your gadget and gear — rather, it is talking to the gadget and gear itself. These personal voice assistants started with Siri, Siri was introduced as an iOS application available in the App Store by Siri, Inc., which was acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010, and soon followed by Google Now in 2012 and then Cortana came out to join the party. Last but not the least, Hound from Soundhound came out in 2015 and is considered to be much faster and more meaningful and intelligent than its bigger rivals.

Although there are many intelligent personal voice assistants out there in the market like Amazon Echo, Ask Ziggy for Windows Phone, Assistant bySpeaktoit, Blackberry Assistant for Blackberry, Braina for Windows, Cortana byMicrosoft, Evi by Amazon, Google Now by Google, S Voice by Samsung Electronics, SILVIA by Cognitive Code, Voice Mate by LG Electronics but which one actually works best for users, in other words, which one is more fast, more meaningful and more intelligent?

Here are some quick facts about Hound:

Say It. Get It.

Hound gives you fast and deep results to what you ask for, such as looking up the weather, placing a phone call, sending a text message, finding a hotel that matches your detailed criteria, navigating to an address, checking the stock market, searching and playing music, and even playing interactive games.

Speech-to-Meaning

Hound takes speed and accuracy to a whole new level by combining speech recognition and language understanding. Just recognizing words isn’t good enough, so Hound does language understanding at the same time. This speech-to-meaning capability makes Hound the new way to search and do things faster without typing.

Speak naturally – add specific details and follow ups

Hound understands both context and details. You can follow up to refine your results, or you can say precisely what you want all at once.

There’s still room for a lot of improvements that can be made to these personal voice assistants and there should be if we’re going to spend the future talking to our gadgets and gears. But it will take time.