Facebook buys Wit.ai, a speech recognition startup

Facebook may soon be able to understand you a bit better — or at least your voice

Facebook has agreed to acquire Wit.ai, a speech recognition and natural language processing service. The deal that could help the social networking company develop voice features for Messenger and other applications

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A rep for Facebook confirmed the deal in a statement to Mashable. “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," the Facebook spokesperson said. Read more...

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