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Google Neural Machine Translation Now Generally Available

Google has announced that its neural machine translation system is now generally available via the Google Cloud Translation API. The company also announced that neural machine translation now supports seven new languages including English to and from Russian, Polish, Hebrew, and Arabic.

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Janet Wagner

Translation, Language, Machine Learning

04-12-2017

Daily API RoundUp: Weaver, Elasticode, Knurld, Rosette, Bookalope, QuantiModo

Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, eCommerce, Language, and Voice. Also recently added to the directory are several SDKs for the QuantiModo quantified self platform. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Language

02-05-2016

Houndify API Brings Conversational Interface To Things

SoundHound's Hound app allows users to ask complex questions and get an accurate answer really fast. The app combines voice recognition and language understanding functionality to achieve this. The Houndify API allows developers to integrate it in to their own apps and hardware creations.

Brief

Candice McMillan

Voice, Application Development, Language

11-13-2015

Google Postpones Plans to Integrate Dart into Chrome

Dart 1.9 has been released with new features. It also comes with the news that the Dart team has abandoned plans to integrate Dart VM into Google Chrome browser.

News

Romin Irani

Language

03-27-2015

Translation Cloud Launches Crowdsourced Translation API

Translation Cloud has launched the Translation Cloud API that allows developers to integrate the crowdsourced translation platform into their applications.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Translation, Language

02-02-2015

Facebook Acquires Voice Recognition API Provider Wit.ai

Facebook has acquired voice recognition API provider Wit.ai. The Wit API allows developers to add speech recognition and voice control to any app, regardless of platform.

News

Eric Carter

Language, Natural Language Processing, Voice

01-06-2015

Speaktoit Showcases API For Voice Enabling Apps

Speaktoit demonstrates their natural language understanding API at the Samsung Developer Conference this week to empower new IOT technologies.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Natural Language Processing, Language, Voice

11-14-2014

How 5 Natural Language Processing APIs Stack Up API University

A growing number of companies are using NLP (Natural Language Processing) to analyze and enrich their data. NLP helps companies take their data and begin to understand and monetize it. This article looks at leading Natural Language Processing providers that offer API integration.

Analysis

Patricio Robles

Natural Language Processing, Content, Language

07-28-2014

Heroku Announces Support for the New PHP

Today, Heroku makes a huge announcement around its support for PHP. PHP is currently one of the most popular languages driving the web. Although PHP drives the likes of some of the webs giants (e.g. Facebook, Etsy, etc.), PHP has traditionally lacked some qualities (e.g. runtime, management, infrastructure elements) that peers like Ruby on Rails, Python with Django, and Node have delivered for quite some time. On April 30, at Facebook's F8, a new PHP is announced with full Heroku support. On the evening of the announcement, ProgrammableWeb caught up with Heroku's Adam Gross.

Interview

Eric Carter

Application Development, Platform-as-a-Service, Language

05-01-2014

ReadSpeaker Launches SpeechCloud API Allowing Developers to Add Text-to-Speech Functionality to Apps and Devices

ReadSpeaker, a leading online text-to-speech solutions provider, has announced the launch of the brand new speechCloud API (SCAPI) which allows developers to create applications and enable Internet-connected devices with text-to-speech functionality.

Brief

Janet Wagner

News Services, API, Language

10-23-2013

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Google Neural Machine Translation Now Generally Available

Daily API RoundUp: Weaver, Elasticode, Knurld, Rosette, Bookalope, QuantiModo

Houndify API Brings Conversational Interface To Things

Google Postpones Plans to Integrate Dart into Chrome

Translation Cloud Launches Crowdsourced Translation API

Facebook Acquires Voice Recognition API Provider Wit.ai

Speaktoit Showcases API For Voice Enabling Apps

How 5 Natural Language Processing APIs Stack Up API University

Heroku Announces Support for the New PHP

ReadSpeaker Launches SpeechCloud API Allowing Developers to Add Text-to-Speech Functionality to Apps and Devices