That's insanely fast, compound natural language queries. I'm impressed.
Such a low latency means the demo was done over Wifi in the SoundHound building - especially if the speech recognition runs on the server side. Or which speech recognition software does that demo app use? Nuance software based on the client? Android 5 voice recognition isn't that fast.
yes, if you don't scroll down it looks like it's some users demonstration of it.
So the question where the speech recognition happens isn’t easily answered.
I've gotta think Apple will open up Siri to app developers sooner than later.
Houndify looks interesting.
The failure rate is high enough that I rarely use the voice feature, despite the fact I have problems with my hands that make typos a constant irritation. I know I am just an anecdote - the strange thing is that my voice and lack of accent should be the easiest thing for Android to navigate.
I think it can augment things well, but not be the prime time star.
I would find more value as a developer if, when given a natural language query, it returned a structured query. Then I could tweak the query to conform to whatever data retrieval API I wanted.
I don't think what I'm asking for has to be mutually exclusive with what they're currently offering. Give me the option to have houndify do some or all of the work for me.
We actually have an api endpoint dedicated to doing this for you. At the moment we have a concept of "domains" where developers use a proprietary language to help Hound understand topics. Using our api, you could technically do this yourself, and add functionality that doesn't currently exist on the platform.
You could use the hotel domain and get back a ton of pre-formatted data, or you could just get back speech-to-text, or you could specify hooks you want to take action on. I'm not a developer on the actual voice api itself, so I'm not the most informed, but perhaps that answers your question?
Q2: As a domain developer, where does the query-able content reside?
Bug: When scrolling down the page it is very very sluggish, using Chrome on Xubuntu 15.04.
Maybe try going into Settings > Voice on the Google search app and downloading the voice pack for the version of English you think matches best? That's still pretty weird though.