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

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Post by jjwiseman »

X4 wrote: post #85
aquark wrote: post #60

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You could SiriProxy ( https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy ) as input to this to handle to speech-to-text part I'm running this at home and it works great for adding custom actions to Siri

I was initially thinking that this is just a SaaS2SaaS Wrapper around Google/Apple Speech recognition. Hey, tbh. wouldn't that be a clever way to market? hehe, that reminded me to SiriProxy. But to give the authors their credit back, it's not what I guessed. It's much more a GUI around a complex toolset that would require you to dig deep into mudwater, bad docs etc. So, yes it makes life easier and sense to use this…

Google doesn't use Nuance.

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

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Post by lutusp »

mrosethompson wrote: post #88
lutusp wrote: post #68

The word "Siri" doesn't belong in the title or the article, unless a Trabant advertisement has the right to mention Mercedes-Benz in its promotional text. The project does a primitive kind of voice recognition, but it doesn't use Siri. On this topic, I invite people to try out my non-prototype, non-project toy that uses Google's support for HTML5 speech recognition. It's pretty funny how wrong things go when you try…

I also found it going very well or very, very badly. For instance: "In most cases, before beginning to listen, the browser will ask permission to monitor your microphone." Came out as: "In Las Cruces, f listen, permission to monitor your microphone."

I think in the future, when computers are 100 times more intelligent than they are, we'll laugh at these examples. But no one should doubt the difficulty of interpreting continuous speech without prior training for a given speaker. It's no wonder that speech interpretation on telephones tend to be limited to understanding a handful of possible responses: "Yes", "No", "Let me speak to a human!"

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

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Post by film42 »

npalli wrote: post #50

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…

Maybe I'm out of line, but if you're planning on tearing into what's wrong with something, try to offer something positive as well. Your feedback was great and constructive, it's just not very nice.

I'll be honest, HN has a tendency (myself included) to have a first natural reaction of "how can I criticize this?" But just because something isn't faster than enterprise, or not-as-scalable, or not made in your framework of choice doesn't mean it's worthless. I think this project is amazing. Great job and I can't wait to see this mature.

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

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Post by ragebol »

drewch wrote: post #49
ragebol wrote: post #42

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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.

Nice! I'll check back on Maluuba in November.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

blazingfrog2 wrote: post #89
StavrosK wrote: post #87

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Is there a pricing page?

Not at this point. Feel free to sign up for the beta on our site and take it for a spin, I'll make sure to get you your credentials quickly. PS: by the way, big fan of historio.us...

Already did, thanks! It looks pretty nice, I'd like to implement it in a few of my apps for an easier UI. I'm glad you like historious, thanks!

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

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Post by ar7hur »

mynameisme wrote: post #83
illyism wrote: post #7

As a Service? Why not go open source?

Ignoring any open vs. closed source arguments, this kind of thing would work much better as library than some third party service. There's no way I'd make an application that depended on a third party service over the internet for basic UI interaction.

You're absolutely right, that's why we plan to release a "run on your server / embed on your device" runtime.

Having it online for configuration has at least two advantages:

1/ Easier to start (1 minute and you're playing with it)

2/ Leverage existing, "live" data to build your configuration

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

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Post by X4 »

jjwiseman wrote: post #91
X4 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was initially thinking that this is just a SaaS2SaaS Wrapper around Google/Apple Speech recognition. Hey, tbh. wouldn't that be a clever way to market? hehe, that reminded me to SiriProxy. But to give the authors their credit back, it's not what I guessed. It's much more a GUI around a complex toolset that would require you to dig deep into mudwater, bad docs etc. So, yes it makes life easier and sense to use this…

Google doesn't use Nuance.

Oh, that's interesting. Do you have more information?

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

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Post by mynameisme »

ar7hur wrote: post #97
mynameisme wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ignoring any open vs. closed source arguments, this kind of thing would work much better as library than some third party service. There's no way I'd make an application that depended on a third party service over the internet for basic UI interaction.

You're absolutely right, that's why we plan to release a "run on your server / embed on your device" runtime. Having it online for configuration has at least two advantages: 1/ Easier to start (1 minute and you're playing with it) 2/ Leverage existing, "live" data to build your configuration

In that case, I'll be on the look out when it's released!

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

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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.

I made a simple wrapper at https://github.com/yol/wit_ros

Are there any test cases I can use, which utilize the full power of the API?

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