2 HN users recommended this demo2 months2015–2019score 2.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
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.
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.
You're probably skeptical (as I was) but watch this video demo of the Hound app: [this video] That's insanely fast, compound natural language queries. I'm impressed.
Demo of very fast compound natural language voice queries.
I 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 search will end up with something a bit like Siri (but something that works). The hound demo (if real) is a very impressive glimpse of the future of search. For those who haven't seen it : [this video]
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - [link] I'm a Senior Software Engineer at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! [this video] [link] [link] If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.
Employer mentions their leaked demo video in a job post.
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - [link] I'm an Engineering Manager at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! [this video] [link] [link] If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.
Employer mentions their leaked demo video in a job post.
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - [link] I'm an Engineering Manager at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! [this video] [link] [link] If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.
Employer mentions their leaked demo video in a job post.
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - [link] I'm an Engineering Manager at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago! [this video] [link] [link] If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.
Employer mentions their leaked demo video in a job post.
SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. | ONSITE - [link] I'm an Engineering Manager at SoundHound. We've raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently. Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a while back: [this video] [link] [link] If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: tilo at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please, no recruiters! And we have hired from this thread in the past.
Employer mentions their leaked demo video in a job post.
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