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From a technical perspective, it is not very likely that they will listen to people's voice to push advertisements. They needs to listen to you ALL the time, co
by oh-kumudo 9y ago
From a technical perspective, it is not very likely that they will listen to people's voice to push advertisements. They needs to listen to you ALL the time, collecting your voice from all kinds of noisy environment, uploading to their server for further analysis. And in order for this service to be profitable, they need to train model to extract the part of your conversation that hints a shopping intention.
This requires infrastructure at a really large scale I don't think even FaceBook can sigh up for that. And if they have a legal department, which I assume they do and a functional one, those ideas would be killed before it moves to implementation.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>in order for this service to be profitable, they need to train model to extract the part of your conversation that hints a shopping intention So basically just listen for any time someone says a variant of "I need/want x"?
- oh-kumudo 9y agoWell, there are a lot of needs: I need to go. I need some sleep. I need more time. I want to quit...like you name it.
- kevinmchugh 9y agoMy expectation is that they could sell advertisers activation sounds on TV ads. The Facebook app would be programmed to listen for a small handful of sounds (like "hey sir"), but which correspond with eg a car ad. Then the advertisers can track consumer reach throughout the process. No speech recognition necessary, it's just another row in a database, recording an ad display. No evidence that this is what they're doing, though.