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.

FacebookLovesWitai650Facebook 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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