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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by karmasimida on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:07PM (#18736658)
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?

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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by sfilargi on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:11PM (#18736679)
No 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.
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by dnautics on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:21PM (#18736752)
But also remember that accessibility for visually impaired folk is often. A regulatory imperative in those product lines.
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by danso on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:45PM (#18736959)
Facebook has its own Alexa/Echo like offering. Not sure if Messenger also has voice functionality.
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by moneil971 on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:08PM (#18737131)
It does, you can do video and voice calling from the Messenger app
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by nurettin on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:20PM (#18736750)
that 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.
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by 52358 on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:30PM (#18736825)
you're forgetting about Facebook Watch, which allows pages to monetize their videos through an ads program just like youtube
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by dqpb on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:25PM (#18736787)
Could be used for indexing videos for search
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by rock_hard on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:27PM (#18736806)
To automatically create subtitles for translation is another use case I have seen
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by yesenadam on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:01PM (#18737481)
Yt 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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