SoundHound Announces Houndify, a Developer Platform for Voice Action Integration

The developers behind SoundHound just announced a new platform to help developers add a voice interface to their applications and services. The developers say their platform has an advantage over Google Now by performing speech recognition and understanding simultaneously (which increases the speed), that it understands more compound and complex queries, and that they are making the platform easy to learn and easy to use.

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Google Docs, Sheets, Slides Apps Get Access To File Templates

Google has updated the Docs, Sheets and Slides app to provide template options on mobile. Selecting the FAB button now gives an option to choose from the readily available preformatted styles that we see on the web version. The update should go live on the Play Store soon, but you can grab the apk off ApkMirror (Docs, Sheets, Slides).

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Qualcomm Believes Splitting the Company isn’t the Best Strategic Plan

For a while now, Qualcomm has been debating whether or not to split the company into two separate ones. One would be focused on designing chips while the other would handle all of the licensing for their patents, technology, etc. However, this week, the company made a statement that the current setup offers them the greatest strategic benefits.

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