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With deep learning acoustic models?",{"value":175,"source":98,"evidence":176},"Whether speech samples are used for training",[177],{"id":178,"by":68,"text":179},"7229991","Does Wit also use the fragments of speech that get sent over the API as a dataset for training Sphinx?",{"value":181,"source":98,"evidence":182},"Who is behind the project",[183],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"7228971","nighthawk24","All cool, but who is behind this project?",[188,195,202,208],{"value":189,"source":98,"evidence":190},"Google Web Speech API",[191],{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"7226907","jahansafd","This is pretty cool! Google's Web Speech API can also be used to build something similar. Here is the Web Speech API Demonstration:…",{"value":196,"source":98,"evidence":197},"Maluuba",[198],{"id":199,"by":200,"text":201},"7228969","jamesfranco","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.maluuba.com Does the same as wit.ai I guess",{"value":203,"source":98,"evidence":204},"Ask Ziggy",[205],{"id":206,"by":200,"text":207},"7230738","I contacted them a while ago and they stated that they will let developers create their own intents soon. http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ask-ziggy.com is also similar",{"value":209,"source":98,"evidence":210},"CMU Sphinx",[211],{"id":212,"by":213,"text":214},"7227384","imtu80","Here is a link of an open source project. http:\u002F\u002Fcmusphinx.sourceforge.net\u002F Looks like they are using it for their project…",{"comments":216,"answered":217,"key":218},11,7,[219,222,223],{"id":220,"text":221},"7227379","Yes we plan to release an offline lightweight runtime that allows you to run Wit locally. 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