How Crowdsourcing Will Help Startups Build Their Own Versions of Siri | WIRED
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Thats why he started Wit.ai, a service that helps developers pool their voice samples together to power a speech and natural language recognition system that Lebrun hopes will soon rival the depth and breadth of the tools available to the likes of Apple and Google. In the years to come, this could become an important thing, as developers build the next wave of technologies that require speech interfaces, such as internet-connected appliances and wearable devices that dont have screens. Wit.ai is still new, but it has already attracted thousands developers to its beta service, and on Wednesday, the company announced that it had just raised $3 million in seed funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Worse, because of the very high setup price to integrate voice into a system, no single vendor could truly address the needs of smaller companies or developers." Typically, a speech recognition developer begins by creating whats called a "grammar"—a collection of words and phrases that you want the computer to be able to recognize.
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