Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces | TechCrunch

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"As part of Facebook, Wit.ai could help the company offer voice control development tools alongside its Parse development platform, aid with voice-to-text input for Messenger, improve Facebook’s understanding of the semantic meaning of voice, and create a Facebook app you can navigate through speech.

“Wit.ai has built an incredible yet simple natural language processing API that has helped developers turn speech and text into actionable data,” Facebook tells me. “We’re excited to have them onboard.”"

Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces | TechCrunch