Facebook Acquires Voice-Interface Creator Wit.ai
Facebook started off the new year with an acquisition that speaks your language, announcing its pickup of voice-interface creator Wit.ai. Terms were not disclosed.
Facebook started off the new year with an acquisition that speaks your language, announcing its pickup of voice-interface creator Wit.ai. Terms were not disclosed.
The social network said in a statement announcing the transaction:
Wit.ai has built an incredible yet simple natural language-processing API (application-programming interface) that has helped developers turn speech and text into actionable data. We’re excited to have them onboard.
And Wit.ai added in a blog post:
The most interesting journeys involve unexpected surprises.
For a long time, I’ve been obsessed with building machines that understand human languages.
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