Hound already runs rings around Siri and Cortana, and it's just getting warmed up

Nine months ago, SoundHound wowed the world when it took the wraps off Hound, a voice-enabled personal assistant that was not only faster than rival apps Siri and Google Now but that could understand and correctly answer questions of surprising complexity. This isn't something that just happened overnight, however -- it required nine years of work and incredible foresight on the part of its engineers. In an interview with BGR, SoundHound founder and CEO Keyvan Mohajer explained how he conceived Hound and how he expects to compete against rival digital personal assistants created by tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft. MUST READ: I really tried, but there's just no way I can live with the Galaxy S7 Mohajer first came up with the idea for Hound when he was a PhD student at Stanford. He had a deep conviction that the next big evolution in personal computing would come in the form of voice-enabled personal assistants that would not only answer basic questions but would be capable of more or less conversing.