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Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

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

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Post by itry »

jasonkester wrote: post #6

Is there any way to view this page with the effects turned off? With all the text constantly appearing and disappearing, I haven't yet made it to the end of a sentence, and therefore can't form an opinion about it. I think there was a picture of a robot on the screen for a few seconds, but that's all I remember. Would disabling javascript do the trick?

Same here. I find "siri as a service" an interesting project. But not interesting enough to cope with a page that blends in and out content and makes my head spin.

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

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Post by MasterScrat »

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 used to record on Google and here it doesn't seem to do anything?

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

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Post by blandinw »

jasonkester wrote: post #6

Is there any way to view this page with the effects turned off? With all the text constantly appearing and disappearing, I haven't yet made it to the end of a sentence, and therefore can't form an opinion about it. I think there was a picture of a robot on the screen for a few seconds, but that's all I remember. Would disabling javascript do the trick?

Hi, fixed it! Thanks for that first feedback!

EDIT: All animations (except "What we do") should be disabled. Please, email me at willy@wit.ai if you still have issues.

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

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Post by ar7hur »

xauronx wrote: post #5

I like the concept a lot. I'm going to have to read more about it. One thing that I'm unclear about is if this does voice->text, or if the developer does that and Wit handles translation of that into actions. Just a heads up, but Get Started on the pricing page does nothing. It's natural progression for me to go home page->pricing->OK, looks good, let's get started.

Thanks for the feedback.

Wit takes the output of the voice recognition engine as input. It's quite robust to voice recognition errors. Most devs use Google's engine or the open source CMU Sphinx engine.

Fixed the Get Started link, thanks!

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

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Post by fjabre »

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 converted from voice to text by Siri or Google or some other speech-to-text engine?

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