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Facebook Acquires Wit.ai
  
 
Posted: Jan 6, 2015

05 Jan 2015: Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces

05 Jan 2015: Wit.ai is joining Facebook
 

 
Posted: Jan 22, 2015
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=> Will Conversational Speech to Text Translation be the Next Frontier for Big Data?

>>Facebook has announced that they’re testing a new Messenger feature that will translate audio into text, to appear alongside sent audio files. The functionality’s only been made available to a small number of users at this stage, with no word on when it might be rolled out to everyone, but the fact that they’ve even made this option available at all is significant. This is the latest move in Facebook’s push into speech-to-text translation functionality, an advance which would have significant implications for the social giant. While some may see this as a novelty, an add-on feature of sorts, the introduction of this capability is closely aligned with Facebook’s overall strategic goals.<<

=> Mark Zuckerberg: The Future of Facebook Will Be Wearable

>>“In another 10 to 15 years ... there will be another platform which is even more natural and even more built into our lives than mobile phones are,” Zuckerberg said Wednesday when asked about his 10-year vision for Facebook. “It’s pretty easy to imagine that in the future, we will have something that ... we can wear.”<<
 

 
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