What is Wit?
Wit enables developers to add a modern natural language interface to their app or device with minimal effort. Precisely, Wit turns sentences into structured information that the app can use. Developers don’t need to worry about Natural Language Processing algorithms, configuration data, performance and tuning. Wit encapsulates all this and lets you focus on the core features of your apps and devices.
Wit is a tool in the NLP / Sentiment Analysis category of a tech stack.
Who uses Wit?
Companies
4 companies reportedly use Wit in their tech stacks, including Wbot, Prattle, and main.
Developers
8 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Wit.
Wit's Features
- Voice-enabled Android and iOS apps
- Rasberry Pi based home automation commanded by speech
- Google Glass apps accepting voice commands
- Robots and drones dialog interfaces (ROS)
- SMS-based information or remote control services
- IM-based information or remote control services
- "Quick add" features a la Google Calendar (replacing a form with free text input)
- Natural Language querying a la Facebook Graph Search (turning a sentence into a database query)
- Personal Assistants a la Apple’s Siri
Wit Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Wit?
Wit.ai
Iti is an API that makes it very easy for developers to create applications or devices that you can talk to.
Any app, or any device, like a smart watch, Google Glass, Nest, even a car, can stream audio to the Wit API, and get actionable data in return. We turn speech into actions.
Think Twilio for Natural Language, with Stripe-level developer friendliness.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
