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It is Siri minus a lot of the language processing. I'm glad to see interest in the topic since this is the type of thing I am currently working on a http://www.stremor.com

But Wolfram alpha has a lot of things missing, and lots of the things it does are way longer than I want to hear a computer read to me.

Maybe if the author combined this with our TLDR api, and our Sentence parsring API, and our Fact search API...

(yes if you use all of our API's you can build this in about and hour and have it do a lot more) hint hint

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You're claiming to do better than wolfram alpha? Are there any online demos of your technology? The better search through semantics has been thrown around for years, but so far it's never been found to beat the traditional approach. POS and grammatical comprehension has all the usual brittleness. The best or the best is CoreNLP, but that's GPL so unlikely to be in your product unless you've licensed it.

Check us out. We don't use CoreNLP or NLTK. we have our own because everything else sucked.

And yes I do better than wolfram alpha.

Why don't you have pricing, dev docs... or... anything other than marketing speak on your website? I see zero actionable/useful information there.

Edit: And I looked around for like five minutes. I assumed you would have some easy-to-start sort of thing there since you're telling small Github projects to use you.

We will be in the azure data market monday or tuesday.

As CTO I am always the last to know that we weren't already there.

maybe if you install their TLDR plugin - it will help you find out just the right info you need on their website ;-)

more seriously though - I felt the same. Lots of marketing talk, but little actionable stuff to see this put to practice. The Samuru search engine didn't seem to respond with anything vastly better than google or duckduckgo, but I didn't really compare searches, or can't think of an intelligent way to do so.

Feel free to fork and improve, I'd be interested to see how it would work with your APIs.

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