The social media giant, Facebook hasn't been much visible in the area of voice aided technologies, which almost all the other major technology vendors now have own voice assistants like Google Assistant and Samsung Bixby.
But things are about to change, as Facebook is working on its own speech recognition technology under the moniker Aloha, which feature will be available for the Facebook platform and Messenger apps, and also likely extended to external hardware products such as the smart speaker.
Albeit, the company may be late to the party, the need to arrive at more powerful utility to solve the lingering problems of voice aided communication especially given the large pool of users on the platform is most expedient.
Facebook's groundwork for the push to voice aided communications are evident in codes inside the Messenger Android apps leaked by tipster and mobile researcher Jane Manchun Wong, with the first look at the prototype for the Aloha features.
The most notable feature is labelled “Aloha Voice Testing” and may serve speech recognition and transcribing purposes, allowing users to speak in a message to a blue bar that expands and contracts to visualize the volume of the speech.
Aloha may support external Wi-Fi or Bluetooth devices, and the software will run on both Facebook’s hardware and software, akin to how Google Assistant runs on both Android and Google Home speakers.
It's still unclear whether the hardware support is for Aloha voice app and web portal, or if it only relate to the Facebook Oculus VR.
No comments