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   Show HN: Siri-as-a-Service Speech API(wit.ai)

   242 points by ar7hur 13y ago|60 comments
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   by ar7hur 13y ago

   Come on, 53. That whole story is the best thing that can happen to you. Publicity.
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   by ar7hur 13y ago

   Somewhat scary to see that at around $190 for one bedroom, there are nights when AirBnb is more expensive than 4-star hotels like Westin.
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   Pebble launches its App Store(techcrunch.com)

   3 points by ar7hur 13y ago|0 comments
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   by ar7hur 13y ago

   IMified? Was acquired by Voxeo in 2009. Was the same kind of tool, but on IM networks rather than Twitter.
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   by ar7hur 13y ago

   Nice product, well executed. Reminds me of IMified a few years back. If you want to build something similar yourself for your own app, it's very easy with the Wit API [1] [1] https://wit.ai
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   by ar7hur 13y ago

   That's interesting from an academic point of view, but in my opinion spell checkers that don't take into account the context in the sentence (words before, syntax, context) are so 1990... I'd prefer to see research in this di
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   by ar7hur 13y ago

   So far Watson for developers/business is 100% PR and 0% real. In November they announced the Watson API. Where is the API? Where is the documentation? Where are the examples? Google it and you'll get a torrent of PDF press release
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   by ar7hur 13y ago

   They don't buy the product they buy the team and their vision.
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    So you don't even need to log in to Facebook? Even if that's the case, I'm afraid this will be tempting for the business to require check-in. Let's see if Phillz changes their settings!
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    First I thought that FB would provide the hardware and internet connection to the business in exchange for so much information about their customers... But after reading their FAQ, I realize that no, FB does not provide anything. The deal i
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    I'm surprised nobody has quoted Jean-Jacques Rousseau on money: I love liberty, and I loathe constraint, dependence, and all their kindred annoyances. As long as my purse contains money it secures my independence, and exempts me from
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    Very well written. Excerpt: Microsoft could ship a hamster wrapped in duct tape, label it Windows, and a lot of OEMs would bundle it.
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    I was reading, waiting for the mention to IBM Watson... and here it comes! I'm so tired of reading how Watson is a step toward Artificial General Intelligence, self-aware machines, etc. People must really understand that Watson is, lik
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    Best part from the post: > I know that the brogrammers out there are constantly getting texts from their buddies to plan the weekend's broactivities, trying to decide in whose mancave they'll be setting up their lan party, and
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    There is such an API! https://wit.ai
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    I'm surprised that most of the comments here ("I want less cliff, not more"... "why don't we just get rid of the cliff"...) are really employee-centric -- and not the kind of employee I want to hire as a founde
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    So is YC worth it? I think that for a first-time entrepreneur, that's definitely worth it. I wish I started my first company (ten years ago) at something like YC. We did so many mistakes we could have avoided , it would have been a hug
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    Just being curious, what kind of metrics are you interested in predicting for Shopify? I would give away my car in exchange for a few years of Shopify order data :)
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    I used Stupeflix for a project (needed the generate videos from set of pictures) and their API works really well. Simple, does the job, developer-friendly.
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    You're absolutely right, that's why we plan to release a "run on your server / embed on your device" runtime. Having it online for configuration has at least two advantages: 1/ Easier to start (1 minute and you
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    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 one knows why :)
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    Actually I think the developer UX is quite different... but you should try both and make your own opinion.
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    We share the same vision that voice becomes the key human/machine interface, especially for the upcoming generation of wearable devices, home automation, etc. I don't know if Ask Ziggy is 100% self-service for the developers. That
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    I'd love to see the full video of your demo, it looks cool!
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    Hi Stremor! :) Looks like you focus on search, summary, entity and sentiment extraction with a rule-based approach. Wit's focus is to power human/machine interfaces, and our priority is to provide developers with a 100% configurab
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    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 and get Wit for free (à la Github) :)
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    Fucking sue me :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366912
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    > How "open" is Wit? Openness is one of our core values. We're inspired by companies like GitHub. - Regarding data, we encourage users to share their data, making “public” Wit instances free of charge (à la GitHub). We’r
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    by ar7hur 13y ago

    > 1. 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 analysis. The ASR engines they talk about (CMU, OpenEars