The iPhone version links to the iPod.
If you've ever used SoundHound (or its rival Shazam) is very likely to have the phone to identify a catchy tune whose name I knew. Now the company is introducing Hound, a little brother SoundHound, but one with a slightly different identity.
Instead of helping to name that tune, the Dog free to Android and the iPhone prompts you to search for a song or an artist with only the spoken word. Unlike SoundHound, the dog will not accept abbreviated singing, humming, writing, or recorded sounds.
The results pull the music database SoundHound, showing the cover of the album or artist, a piece of YouTube, concert dates, a page of information, direct access to digital music store, and letters when available.
Like its big brothers, Hound is a brilliant piece, slick-looking software that offers a variety of useful information about songs and singers. I proved it on both platforms, and for the most part, the implementation was quick, especially when compliance with more specific requests for an artist or song.
From the application focuses on the quick search, music-powered voice, its uses are too narrow. As a standalone application, it is functional and attractive, but not as extensively as the free and premium SoundHound SoundHound infinite applications, both those that go beyond the functionality of this application is lighter.
While Hound has immediate utility, the application also provides the basis for SoundHound to enter other categories of voice search, which will bring in direct competition with companies like Google, Nuance, and possibly Vlingo. That's a smart move for SoundHound to expand the database Sound2Sound refined algorithm that powers these applications, first, to other implementations for auditory processing as above. Dog is a good start, but we're looking forward to what comes next.
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