[hardik988]

Tangentially related: Does anyone remember the name of this startup/service that was on HN (I believe), that enables you to infer actions from plaintext.

Eg: "Switch on the lights" becomes

{"action": "switch_on", "thing" : "lights" }

etc.. I'm trying really hard to remember the name but it escapes me.

Speech recognition and <above service> will go very well together.

[ar7hur]

Our service Wit.ai (YC W14) does just that.

Demo: https://labs.wit.ai/demo/index.html

[hardik988]

This is it! Thank you!

[adyus]

I've been meaning to ask someone at Wit.ai this for a while:

Since your service is completely free, how do you plan on surviving? Would you open source any parts of Wit.ai should you go under?

I feel these are important questions to ask before investing time & energy into using your otherwise awesome service...

[ragebol]

They've been acquired by Facebook, the main guys behind are now making Facebook M.

[JustFinishedBSG]

> They've been acquired by Facebook

Ah so it will probably be discontinued

[kuschku]

Which languages does your service support?

[hk__2]

From their website: de, en, es, et, fr, it, nl, pl, pt, ru, sv.