A quick follow up to my earlier post about Windows 10, i mentioned that the Win 10 OS will ship with Cortana pre-installed, even for PC and laptop. Interestingly, Microsoft Windows has always dabbled with speech recognition, hell i remember trying to teach my Dads Packard Bell running Windows 95 to understand speech, but for me, it never really nailed it! I mean Cortana was actually last in line for the virtual assistants on the mobile platform, with Google and Apple taking the lead. Lets not forget though, that these are speech recognition engines as part of a bigger OS, its not a specialisation for any of the companies previously mentioned. So, what about those specialist apps? What kind of level are they not operating at? Well, i recently saw a demonstration of an app called 'Hound', its produced by SoundHound inc, who's music recognition app (like Shazam) i have used on many occasions. Rather than ramble on, im going to just link a couple of video's below, the first is a Windows Vista speech recognition test (which is hilarious!!) the second is an internal demonstration of Hound, ill let the video's speak for themselves (though in the Vista video @input eagles had me in stitches!!)
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