THE VIDEO SHELF · voice assistants
Hound Internal Demo
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Hound by SoundHound Inc.
- Topic
- voice assistants
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2019
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
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.
dshankar on Hacker News · 2015-06
In Houndify: Add voice enabled, conversational interface to anythingI 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 …
xedarius on Hacker News · 2015-12
In DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.