Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

wit.ai

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 101 posts

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

#41

Post by xauronx »

itry wrote: post #11
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.

Not involved with the project at all, just wondering what browser you're using? It seems pretty natural and all working fine for me on Chrome.

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

#42

Post by ragebol »

ar7hur wrote: post #35
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.

Awesome! I made a wrapper around Maluuba for ROS before (https://github.com/yol/maluuba_ros) and maybe I get to a Wit-wrapper for ROS as well.

With Maluuba, we can't make a command like "Introduce yourself" or "Grab that can for me" because of the limited set of categories. Wit should be able to handle those as well, from the looks of it.

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

#44

Post by blandinw »

tonydiv wrote: post #40

This looks neat, I will definitely keep it in mind. I would be weary of using the Github Octocat mascot though. I believe Octocat is protected under copyright.

Hi Tony,

After reading http://octodex.github.com/faq.html, we thought it was okay to put this image given that we advertise and reference GitHub a lot, we heavily integrate with it and we love Octocat!

Do you think we should remove it?

Thanks!

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

#45

Post by endlessvoid94 »

This is amazingly timely for me, I've been building my own version of jarvis using speakeasy-nlp (a node NLP library) and Chrome's builtin support for HTML5 webkitSpeechRecognition:

https://github.com/dpaola2/jarvis (work in progress)

I absolutely would love a better NLP api. Please let me in!

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

#46

Post by ragebol »

ar7hur wrote: post #36
GuriK wrote: post #30

what about languages other then English ?

French + English available now. Which language would you like to get?

Dutch... But I guess the odds are low for that, because the smaller user base. There are some companies focusing on care robotics emerging in the Netherlands though, which could use a service like this.

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

#48

Post by ar7hur »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #45

This is amazingly timely for me, I've been building my own version of jarvis using speakeasy-nlp (a node NLP library) and Chrome's builtin support for HTML5 webkitSpeechRecognition: https://github.com/dpaola2/jarvis (work in progress) I absolutely would love a better NLP api. Please let me in!

Jarvis-like systems are a great use case.

You should be able to sign up now.

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

#49

Post by drewch »

ragebol wrote: post #42
ar7hur wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Awesome! I made a wrapper around Maluuba for ROS before ( https://github.com/yol/maluuba_ros ) and maybe I get to a Wit-wrapper for ROS as well. With Maluuba, we can't make a command like "Introduce yourself" or "Grab that can for me" because of the limited set of categories. Wit should be able to handle those as well, from the looks of it.

We (Maluuba) are actually working on improving nAPI and now have the ability to define your own domains and actions. It's not public yet, but we're planning on releasing it mid November.

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

#50

Post by npalli »

It was so confusing figuring out what this service is supposed to do. Had to look up the documentation. In summary, from what I can gather

1. It doesn’t do any speech recognition (speech -> text), so not sure why they put Siri in the title. It is also not clear how they can ‘hijack’ the text from Siri to do this analysis. The ASR engines they talk about (CMU, OpenEars) have pretty horrible accuracy (compared to Siri or google voice).

2. Looks like they do some form of text normalization/correction, again not clear how they do it.

3. The actual service they provide is a form of named entity recognition (confusing named intent which clashes with the android intent mechanism in their examples).

4. Also they let you define your own entities to match. You can train them using a drop –down menu. Not sure how you can train hundreds of examples using point and click.

This different from alchemy (or many others) because this is open source(?) http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/features/entity-extractio...

Given this service was for developers with an interest in NLP, it would have been good if they didn’t hide behind a snow job title like “Siri as a service”.

Post reply on HN