Facebook offering $5 for user voice snippet to improve its speech recognition technology

Tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple had to suspend training ir AI (Artificial Intelligence) software a while back for voice recognition due to privacy concerns. Ever since n, companies have been requesting users to sign up as volunteers for making speech recognition feature better.

While people may love feature, t many users proactively eng with it. To overcome  privacy barrier, Facebook has w come up with an interesting way to lure people into making its speech recognition better for company’s line of voice recognition devices.

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Facebook offers ₹350 for voice snippets

Facebook has started offering people money in exchange for ir recorded voice snippets, where an individual can earn around $5 (approximately ₹350). It is a part of company’s new program, kwn as Pronunciations. For those who are looking to be a part of this test, y will first need to apply to get qualified by simply taking help from Facebook's Viewpoints market research app.

Here's how it works

Once a user is qualified, y will be asked to record phrase ‘Hey Portal’ which has to be followed by any of ir friend’s names from ir existing friend list. app will ask user to say  statement twice.  same steps need to be followed for 10 or names. This will complete a set of recordings. Once completed, users will be rewarded with around 200 Viewpoints. However, to get money out, users will require a total of 1000 Viewpoints. refore, users will actually need to record up to five sets of recordings to finally earn money.

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Facebook program only available in US

As confirmed by Facebook, offer will only be made available to US users who are over of 18 years and have over 75 Facebook friends. company also added that y are planning to roll  program out slowly, so it is t available to every user right away. It also clarified that once it’s made available to someone, y will need to update ir Viewpoints app in order to find feature.

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