Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces.

Facebook today acquired Y Combinator startup Wit.ai, a startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6000 developers on its platform that have built hundreds of apps. As part of Facebook, it could help the company build voice-to-text input for Messenger, and better understanding the semantic meaning of voice, and create a Facebook app you can navigate with your voice.

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

We’ll have more details soon.

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