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03-01-2016, 05:30 PM
Soundhound's new app wants to replace Siri and Google **w on your phone
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SoundHound (http://mashable.com/category/soundhound/), the company k**wn for its song recognition app, is branching out beyond music in a big way.
Following months of private beta, the company has launched Hound, its new voice-enabled assistant app to rival Siri (http://mashable.com/category/siri/) and Google **w.
See also: Ask Siri to beatbox for you right **w. Seriously, do it. (http://mashable.com/2016/01/13/siri-beatbox/)
Though the virtual assistant space is getting increasingly crowded with Siri, Cortana, Google **w and Amazon's Alexa all vying for a spot in our daily lives, SoundHound says its app has a leg up on the competition because it's able to understand more complex queries than other assistants.
SoundHound CEO Keyvan Mohajer showed us that the Hound app was able to quickly answer questions like "When is the sun going to rise two days before Christmas in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan?" (6:47 a.m) and "How many days are there between the day after tomorrow and three days before the second Thursday of **vember of 2022?" (2,446 at the time.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/01/soundhound-hound-assistant-app/)
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SoundHound (http://mashable.com/category/soundhound/), the company k**wn for its song recognition app, is branching out beyond music in a big way.
Following months of private beta, the company has launched Hound, its new voice-enabled assistant app to rival Siri (http://mashable.com/category/siri/) and Google **w.
See also: Ask Siri to beatbox for you right **w. Seriously, do it. (http://mashable.com/2016/01/13/siri-beatbox/)
Though the virtual assistant space is getting increasingly crowded with Siri, Cortana, Google **w and Amazon's Alexa all vying for a spot in our daily lives, SoundHound says its app has a leg up on the competition because it's able to understand more complex queries than other assistants.
SoundHound CEO Keyvan Mohajer showed us that the Hound app was able to quickly answer questions like "When is the sun going to rise two days before Christmas in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan?" (6:47 a.m) and "How many days are there between the day after tomorrow and three days before the second Thursday of **vember of 2022?" (2,446 at the time.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/01/soundhound-hound-assistant-app/)
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