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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…",{"id":58,"by":11,"text":59},"6373720","Hey everyone. Wit guy here. We've been working on Wit the past few months and we think it's time to get your feedback. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Bringing…",{"value":61,"source":52,"evidence":62},"App developers wanting natural language or voice interfaces",[63,64],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"6373776","MasterScrat","That looks really interesting. You should make it clearer that you don't actually handle voice recognition. When I read: \"Developers use Wit to easily build a voice interface for…",{"value":69,"source":52,"evidence":70},"Free for public instances sharing data; paid tier for over 1M calls per month",[71,74],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"6375073","That's why at the bottom of the pricing page we encourage you to contact us if you have more than 1M calls per month. Meanwhile you can decide to share your configuration data…",{"id":75,"by":11,"text":76},"6374994","> How \"open\" is Wit? Openness is one of our core values. 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Thank you!",[119,131,141,154],{"value":120,"source":101,"evidence":121},"Confusing description; does not do speech recognition despite Siri in title",[122,126,127],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"6374396","npalli","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…",{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"6375307","lutusp","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…",{"value":132,"source":101,"evidence":133},"Invite-only signup is a barrier",[134,138],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"6375120","mikeash","Requiring an invite seems like such a high barrier to entry if you actually want people to sign up. I usually skip any such thing, because instant gratification is great, and who…",{"id":139,"by":66,"text":140},"6373922","> You can require an invite and try this in less than 5 minutes. Fair enough, but then you should make it clear: \"Want to try it out? require an invite and try this in less than…",{"value":142,"source":101,"evidence":143},"Animated page content is distracting",[144,148,151],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"6373739","jasonkester","Is there any way to view this page with the effects turned off? With all the text constantly appearing and disappearing, I haven't yet made it to the end of a sentence, and…",{"id":149,"by":146,"text":150},"6373954","Better, but it still seems to have lots of things happening on timers. So I still have things I'm trying to read disappearing out from under me. I imagine as the developer you…",{"id":152,"by":66,"text":153},"6373730","This \"fade-in as you scroll\" thing is annoying. Get-rid-of-it-right-now kind of annoying.",{"value":155,"source":101,"evidence":156},"Per-call pricing may not scale",[157],{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"6375004","radley","The pricing model doesn't scale realistically and would require a subscription service for users. An app with 1M+ installs could do 1M+ calls per day making this service $24k \u002F…",[162,170,181,188],{"value":163,"source":101,"evidence":164},"Clearer explanation of what the service does",[165,166],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"6373792","fjabre","Your message isn't clear. AFAIK there is no official way to interact with Siri or Google voice rec. 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I assume there would be a significant cost to being able to run our own…",[200,208],{"value":201,"source":101,"evidence":202},"How does it get text from Siri or voice recognition",[203,204],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"6373738","xauronx","I like the concept a lot. I'm going to have to read more about it. One thing that I'm unclear about is if this does voice->text, or if the developer does that and Wit handles…",{"value":209,"source":101,"evidence":210},"How does it compare to Alchemy, Ask Ziggy or Maluuba",[211,212,215],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},{"id":213,"by":197,"text":214},"6374536","How does this compare and contrast to http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ask-ziggy.com\u002F ?",{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},"6373914","ragebol","Interesting! Nothing happened after I registered with my Github account though using Opera. I also wonder how this compares to http:\u002F\u002Fwww.maluuba.com\u002F ?",[220,228,235,239],{"value":221,"source":101,"evidence":222},"Ask Ziggy",[223,224],{"id":213,"by":197,"text":214},{"id":225,"by":226,"text":227},"6377787","blazingfrog2","At Ask Ziggy, we are also 100% self-service.",{"value":229,"source":101,"evidence":230},"Maluuba",[231,232],{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},{"id":233,"by":217,"text":234},"6374222","Awesome! I made a wrapper around Maluuba for ROS before (https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fyol\u002Fmaluuba_ros) and maybe I get to a Wit-wrapper for ROS as well. With Maluuba, we can't make a…",{"value":236,"source":101,"evidence":237},"AlchemyAPI",[238],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},{"value":240,"source":101,"evidence":241},"Stremor",[242],{"id":243,"by":244,"text":245},"6375375","drakaal","Sounds like they are trying to be this, http:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=Ko-r4gpM3Rc Except Stremor has a Query Language so you don't have to do anywhere near as much heavy lifting.",{"comments":247,"answered":248,"key":249},21,13,[250,251,254],{"id":55,"text":56},{"id":252,"text":253},"6377639","Fair enough. Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is everything works but no one knows why. Here, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no…",{"id":255,"text":256},"6373824","> You should make it clearer that you don't actually handle voice recognition. You're right, we'll make it more clear on the landing page. 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