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Why not? Facebook as research arm dedicated to play Go/Starcraft also, what do you think their reason is for doing that? They can use a speech recognition sys
by karmasimida 8y ago
Why not?
Facebook as research arm dedicated to play Go/Starcraft also, what do you think their reason is for doing that?
They can use a speech recognition system to transcribe videos, just like what Youtube is doing to improve ad targeting and recommendation. Why is this hard to understand?
- sfilargi 8y agoNo need to be aggressive, as I am not being cynical. I am genuinely asking, because I couldn't see any immediate need for it in their main product.
- dnautics 8y agoBut also remember that accessibility for visually impaired folk is often. A regulatory imperative in those product lines.
- danso 8y agoFacebook has its own Alexa/Echo like offering. Not sure if Messenger also has voice functionality.
- moneil971 8y agoIt does, you can do video and voice calling from the Messenger app
- nurettin 8y agothat would be a bit creepy and opportunistic if fb did that. Yt videos are by and large uploaded for profit. Fb videos are uploaded for storing birthdays and family vacations.
- dqpb 8y agoCould be used for indexing videos for search
- srbijadotokija 8y agostill creppy
- rock_hard 8y agoTo automatically create subtitles for translation is another use case I have seen
- 52358 8y agoyou're forgetting about Facebook Watch, which allows pages to monetize their videos through an ads program just like youtube
- yesenadam 8y agoYt videos are by and large uploaded for profit Is that true? I don't have the stats, but I guess a very small percentage of yt videos were uploaded 'for profit'. Like 1% or less? Maybe much less.
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