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Facebook to pay users to improve its speech recognition

Last year, Facebook abandoned its practice of listening to Messenger audio chats in order to improve its AI speech recognition. Now, instead, it has a new model that requires users’ active consent and involvement – and they’ll even pay you for the help (though not very much.)

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that selected users will be asked to record short phrases via its Viewpoints market research app. If you qualify, you’ll have all the fun of saying “Hey Portal” and then the name of a contact from your Facebook friends list. Apparently you’ll be able to do this with the names of up to ten friends, and you’ll have to do each one twice.

A set of ten names will earn you 200 points in the Viewpoints app, which translates to $1 or five cents per audio snippet. Worse, you won’t be able to withdraw that hard-earned dollar right away, because you need to hit 1000 points ($5) before you get that luxury. Best not to give up the day job, in other words.

Date
2020.02.21 / 17:14
Author
Axar.az
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