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

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Post by MasterScrat »

ar7hur wrote: post #21
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…

> You can require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes.

Fair enough, but then you should make it clear: "Want to try it out? require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes!"

You usually have to wait several days when you apply for a beta like this.

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

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Post by sally888 »

ar7hur wrote: post #26
sally888 wrote: post #19

Great job on this. Are there any plans for Ruby or javascript tutorials, or am I being too optimistic?

Here is a node.js tutorial: https://wit.ai/docs/nodejs-tutorial We'll release a Ruby tutorial soon!

Love you guys already. Thank you!

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

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Post by blandinw »

ragebol wrote: post #29

Interesting! Nothing happened after I registered with my Github account though using Opera. I also wonder how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com/ ?

Regarding Opera, it has been tested and everything should work as expected!

Can you email me your GitHub username at willy@wit.ai to make sure we got your request? Thanks!

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

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Post by jasonkester »

blandinw wrote: post #13
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.

Better, but it still seems to have lots of things happening on timers. So I still have things I'm trying to read disappearing out from under me.

I imagine as the developer you don't notice it. But as somebody trying to read a page, it's really jarring to have that happen. Enough so that I give up trying because I just want it to stop doing that to my eyes.

Any chance you could turn it off completely and just put some arrow icons on there?

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

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Post by ar7hur »

ragebol wrote: post #29

Interesting! Nothing happened after I registered with my Github account though using Opera. I also wonder how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com/ ?

> how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com

Wit is 100% open and flexible, you can create any intent you need for your app, you're not limited to a static set of domains/actions.

EDIT: @ragebol we are very interested in ROS and robotics, don't hesitate to get in touch with me arthur at wit dot ai. In the future we would like to provide an off-the-shelf human/robot communication module for developers.

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

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Post by ar7hur »

MasterScrat wrote: post #31
ar7hur wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

> You can require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes. Fair enough, but then you should make it clear: "Want to try it out? require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes!" You usually have to wait several days when you apply for a beta like this.

I just accepted your invite :)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ar7hur wrote: post #24
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…

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