Two competing music recognition service
Shazam and SoundHound did not get hung up on only one function and continued development.
Last updated Shazam has brought recognition of images, and SoundHound to provide their own digital assistant called Hound.
Currently Hound is in beta testing, access to which can be obtained only for an invite, download the application Hound Beta - Voice Search + in Google Play. Therefore, to judge the capabilities of the next virtual assistant can only be of a promotional video on the official channel.
Hound activated command «Ok, Hound», then you can begin to verbalize the request. Assistant understand even very large phrases, with refinements, such as "show me 4 or 5 star hotels in Seattle for 3 nights starting Friday, priced from 50 to 250 dollars a night." The list of possibilities Hound find more trivial functions: check flight status, send messages, search for songs, transfer songs and stuff.
Nobody would argue that competition - the good, so the appearance of one more voice assistant will help in the development of others. However Hound does not have the array of data that had to collect Apple, Google and Microsoft. In addition, proprietary solutions IT-giant more deeply integrated into a mobile platform that improves the accuracy and timeliness of information provided to users.
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