Google Cloud Natural Language API vs Wit: What are the differences?

Developers describe Google Cloud Natural Language API as "Derive insights from unstructured text using Google machine learning". You can use it to extract information about people, places, events and much more, mentioned in text documents, news articles or blog posts. You can use it to understand sentiment about your product on social media or parse intent from customer conversations happening in a call center or a messaging app. You can analyze text uploaded in your request or integrate with your document storage on Google Cloud Storage. On the other hand, Wit is detailed as "Natural Language for the Internet of Things. Turn speech into actionable data". Wit enables developers to add a modern natural language interface to their app or device with minimal effort. Precisely, Wit turns sentences into structured information that the app can use. Developers don’t need to worry about Natural Language Processing algorithms, configuration data, performance and tuning. Wit encapsulates all this and lets you focus on the core features of your apps and devices.

Google Cloud Natural Language API and Wit belong to "NLP / Sentiment Analysis" category of the tech stack.