Facebook has Acquired An 18-Month-Old Speech Recognition Startup, Wit.ai.
“We’re excited to have them onboard,” Facebook said.
“Facebook’s mission is to connect everyone and build amazing experiences for the over 1.3 billion people on the platform—technology that understands natural language is a big part of that, and we think we can help,” Wit.ai said on its blog.
Wit.ai provides an API for building voice-activated interfaces and already has over 6,000 developers on its platform.
Wit.ai’s interface will remain open and free after it joins Facebook, according to its website.
