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  • Go to the profile of Jason Liao
    Jason Liao
    Jan 24

    Hello speech, we love you too.

    Improvements to our speech recognition technology.

    As voice interactions are becoming more prevalent, we know that speech is important to you. Speech has been essential to our mission since our early beginnings, and…

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    Go to the profile of Aleka Cheung
    Aleka Cheung
    Dec 10, 2018

    New: extract song, album, tv show and movie names

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    Go to the profile of Talha Baig
    Talha Baig
    Aug 17, 2018

    What’s the status of Wit.ai’s systems?

    Launching status page with reliability metrics

    As part of our efforts to increase the visibility developers have into their app and its performance, we are introducing a new status page. This page displays…

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    Go to the profile of Aleka Cheung
    Aleka Cheung
    Aug 13, 2018

    All your app samples at a glance

    Today, we’re excited to introduce the new Samples tab in your app to help developers manage samples…

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    Willy Blandin
    Aug 6, 2018

    Introducing GET /apps/:id

    A way to know more about your Wit.ai app

    As part of our move to make Wit easier to use programmatically, we are releasing a new API endpoint today.
     
     The engineering team has been working on rewriting the machine learning training…

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    Talha Baig
    Jul 2, 2018

    Introducing GET /samples!

    We are happy to announce a new API endpoint that allows you to programmatically retrieve your validated data (aka samples) directly from the Wit API. Instead of having to dig through your Wit console or having to store the validated samples yourself, you can now access them by…

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    Go to the profile of Aleka Cheung
    Aleka Cheung
    Jun 20, 2018

    A smarter wit/location

    We’re introducing a smarter wit/location starting with English apps this week. This entity can now provide more information on the captured location like timezone, locality, region or country.

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    Go to the profile of Jason Liao
    Jason Liao
    May 25, 2018

    API updates!

    Introducing DELETE /roles and DELETE /samples

    We are happy to announce two new features that allow you to delete roles and samples directly from the Wit API: DELETE /roles and DELETE /samples!

    Deleting roles

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    Go to the profile of Aleka Cheung
    Aleka Cheung
    May 22, 2018

    ⭐️ New: Sentiment Analysis Entity ⭐️

    Today, we are adding the built-in wit/sentiment entity to help you analyze the general sentiment of messages you receive, and identify whether a given sentence is positive, neutral or negative. This is an effective way to gauge the overall sentiment of people using…

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    Laurent Landowski
    May 9, 2018

    We are now over 160K Wit hackers!

    When we joined Facebook 3 years ago, our community counted 5,000 developers. Today, we are excited…

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    Go to the profile of Marion Boiteux
    Marion Boiteux
    May 4, 2018

    Wit.ai at F8

    Recap

    Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth! It’s was nice to meet you and see all the great…

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    Julien Odent
    May 1, 2018

    🚀Built-in NLP Integration with Page Inbox 🚀

    Last year we launched built-in NLP to enable developers to easily integrate NLP in their Messenger bot. When built-in NLP is enabled, it automatically extracts relevant information as entities in the messages your bot receives. Today we support 14…

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    Go to the profile of Marion Boiteux
    Marion Boiteux
    Mar 15, 2018

    Welcome to the (new) Wit.ai blog

    Welcome to the new home of our blog — we’re excited you’re here! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Wit.ai blog, this is where we keep our developer community up to speed on the latest from our team, and help folks make the most out of Wit.ai. We’ll use this…

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    Go to the profile of The Wit.ai Team
    The Wit.ai Team
    Feb 28, 2018

    Community Update — February 2018

    We are grateful to our community who continues to give us feedback and help inform our roadmap for Wit. Your input on our issue tracker and FB dev group has a direct impact on what we build and improve. Today we are excited to share our plans for the rest of 2018, and…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Jan 22, 2018

    Toward smarter entities

    First of all, Happy New Year from the Wit team!

    Today, we’re adding the wit/notable_person entity to help you detect and get information on notable people. Previously, you had to create a custom entity, provide a lot of training data, and find the corresponding…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Nov 16, 2017

    Proactive annotations

    As part of our ongoing efforts to make Wit.ai easier and more pleasant to use, we are launching a new version of our sentence annotation widget in the web console.

    When you type a new sentence in the Understanding tab to teach a new app or improve an existing one…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Nov 7, 2017

    Messenger Built-In NLP

    We are excited to announce 3 updates to Built-In NLP. A few months ago, we released Built-in NLP with the Messenger Platform 2.1 to make it easier for developers to leverage the Wit NLP API when building for Messenger. Built-In NLP allows developers to get default entities (thanks, bye…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Oct 22, 2017

    Locale support for dates and times

    Today, we are adding locale support to improve detection and resolving of date and time expressions.

    Context is key in NLP. This is especially true when trying to understand dates or locations. For instance, “today” will be interpreted as…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Aug 22, 2017

    Clearer controls over entity lookup strategies

    Today we are making it easier for you to know how Wit finds entities in a sentence. Wit allows you to extract meaning from a user query as a list of entities. We employ various lookup strategies for entities, as described in our docs. Wit can use…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Aug 7, 2017

    Introducing Insights, a way to better understand your app performance

    Today, we’re releasing Insights to help you better understand and iterate upon the performance of your Wit app. As a first step we are launching a tool within Insights that makes it easier to set the confidence…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Jul 26, 2017

    Launching Built-in NLP for Messenger and Sunsetting Bot Engine (beta)

    We have a few updates to share with you today — most exciting is the launch of Built-in NLP for Messenger, launching with Messenger Platform 2.1 just released today.

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Apr 30, 2017

    Open Sourcing our new Duckling

    Wit relies both on machine learning and rules-based systems. One of these rule-based systems is Duckling, our open-sourced probabilistic parser to detect entities like dates and times, numbers, and durations. Due to our extensive growth, Duckling was not scaling as fast as…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Apr 25, 2017

    Hello, thanks and bye!

    Today, we’re releasing in Beta 3 new built-in entities that many of you have requested:

    • wit/greetings
    • wit/thanks
    • wit/bye
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    The Wit.ai Team
    Apr 17, 2017

    Supporting 100,000 developers and beyond…

    In September 2013, we created Wit to make it easy for developers to add a natural language interface to their apps or devices. You can read more on our journey here. For the past 3.5 years, our community has kept growing. Today, we are pleased to announce…

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    The Wit.ai Team
    Mar 27, 2017

    Reintroducing Composite Entities

    We introduced composite entities on May 2015 but had to remove them temporarily due to the launch of Bot Engine last year. Many of you asked us to reintroduce them since then. And you have been super patient ;-)

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