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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 hackula1 »

ar7hur wrote: post #63
hackula1 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The landing page looks like a minefield of legal issues. Marketing everything explicitly with the references to Siri is asking for a law suit from Apple.

Fucking sue me :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366912

:) I just wanted to say that it looks like a really cool project, so I would not want some troll to come and stomp it out.

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

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Post by drakaal »

ar7hur wrote: post #70
drakaal wrote: post #69

Sounds like they are trying to be this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-r4gpM3Rc Except Stremor has a Query Language so you don't have to do anywhere near as much heavy lifting.

Hi Stremor! :) Looks like you focus on search, summary, entity and sentiment extraction with a rule-based approach. Wit's focus is to power human/machine interfaces, and our priority is to provide developers with a 100% configurable solution, with no prior assumption on their domain. And we don't believe in rules, we chose a machine learning approach.

No, PleaseAPI is converting Natural Language to Database like structures/commands with no need to have a human come up with every way you could say something because the vocabulary is built in.

Unlike Wit it also offers the option to use the API's that are already integrated or Bring Your Own Backend so that you can have a mix of info/responses from your own system, or leverage what is already there.

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

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Post by Cyranix »

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?

  - Spanish (Mexican, Castellano, others?)
  - Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese)
  - Hindi
These would be logical next steps with some important commonalities: broad base of native speakers, high importance in the US market (maybe less so for Hindi), and very important dialect differences. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, and Russian could also force the issue of non-Romanized character sets.

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

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Post by yetanotherphd »

est wrote: post #51
MasterScrat wrote: post #15

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How would you make money with that? honest question.

How to sell free software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

It's obvious to most people (regardless of whether you think that free software is in important principle) that the techniques described in that section will result in you making MUCH LESS money, at least in the current context of these people selling their API.

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

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Post by ar7hur »

skram wrote: post #56

How does this compare and contrast to http://www.ask-ziggy.com/ ?

We share the same vision that voice becomes the key human/machine interface, especially for the upcoming generation of wearable devices, home automation, etc.

I don't know if Ask Ziggy is 100% self-service for the developers. That's a key requirement for us.

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