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Re: Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

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MasterScrat wrote: post #12

That looks really interesting. You should make it clearer that you don't actually handle voice recognition. When I read: "Developers use Wit to easily build a voice interface for their app." I expect you to handle things from start to finish. Also, let me try it! It's frustrating because the UI looks like you can experiment but it's only an animated demo (or am I missing something??) In particular the mic logo is use…

> You should make it clearer that you don't actually handle voice recognition.

You're right, we'll make it more clear on the landing page. A full out-of-the-box integration with some voice recognition engines (we love CMU Sphinx, open source) is in our roadmap.

> Also, let me try it!

We purposely didn't provide a "end-user" demo (something that would look like chatting with Siri) because we want to focus first on the developer experience, when they configure Wit to understand their very own end-users intents. You can require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes.

Re: Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

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post_break wrote: post #10
ar7hur wrote: post #2

Hey everyone. Wit guy here. We've been working on Wit the past few months and we think it's time to get your feedback. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Bringing Natural Language Understanding to the masses of developers is hard and we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us!

Is Siri required? Is there an option for Android devices? I admit I didn't dive too deep into the website because I was looking at all the eye candy.

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Re: Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

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Post by ar7hur »

fjabre wrote: post #16

Your message isn't clear. AFAIK there is no official way to interact with Siri or Google voice rec. It seems like WIT will take the text that has already been translated from a user's voice to text and make it easily accessible to my application but how does WIT access the text generated from a Siri request in the first place for example? Does WIT have some other way of getting at this data that has already been conv…

> AFAIK there is no official way to interact with Siri or Google voice rec.

Actually there are ways. On Android devices, voice rec is available to devs (even offline if the user enabled it!). We have a simple tutorial about how to integrate on Android https://wit.ai/docs/android-tutorial

Right now on iOS you have two options (none of them involves Siri, which is kept closed by Apple):

1/ Do the voice rec server-side (Siri does that)

2/ Use OpenEars to do it client-side

Server-side, you have many voice rec options, including open source CMU Sphinx.

Providing a fully-integrated solution with speech rec out of the box is in our roadmap.

Re: Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

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Post by ar7hur »

post_break wrote: post #10
ar7hur wrote: post #2

Hey everyone. Wit guy here. We've been working on Wit the past few months and we think it's time to get your feedback. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Bringing Natural Language Understanding to the masses of developers is hard and we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us!

Is Siri required? Is there an option for Android devices? I admit I didn't dive too deep into the website because I was looking at all the eye candy.

No, Siri is not required.

Here is a tutorial for quick Android integration: https://wit.ai/docs/android-tutorial

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