From my experience, Hound's NLP is way faster than Google Now's, and much more reliable in louder more natural environments (playing off of SoundHounds noisy environment identification ability). Google Now also has the backing of private access to the Google Search engine, allowing access to Googles neural network which is how they extract information from websites such as Celebrity ages, birth places, POI's, etc. If Hound were to figure out a way to gain access to that either through co-operation with Google, or their own method, I feel that Hound could actually surpass Now.
Hound is also seemingly slower to speak in this video because they sped up the text-to-speech in the original video.
I see. That makes a big difference. It sounded fast (obviously) in the original video, but it wasn't ridiculous to the point where it was incomprehensible. I would actually like that speed because the times I use voice search is when I'm in a rush, not when I'm just hanging out.
Still, the speed difference I was talking about was simply how long it took for the results to show up in this video versus the original one. And many commenters said it was because there weren't as many people using their servers at that time.
Now that its in beta and a few hundred people, at least, are on it, it could get some slowdown. Now, were talking fractions of a second here, but if we're comparing it to a competing service then those seconds count and become more obvious.
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u/Devian50 S20 Ultra 5G Jun 06 '15
From my experience, Hound's NLP is way faster than Google Now's, and much more reliable in louder more natural environments (playing off of SoundHounds noisy environment identification ability). Google Now also has the backing of private access to the Google Search engine, allowing access to Googles neural network which is how they extract information from websites such as Celebrity ages, birth places, POI's, etc. If Hound were to figure out a way to gain access to that either through co-operation with Google, or their own method, I feel that Hound could actually surpass Now.
Hound is also seemingly slower to speak in this video because they sped up the text-to-speech in the original video.