Facebook Will Now Pay You For Your Voice Recordings

After being caught listening to and transcribing voice recordings without informing customers, Facebook announced it will now offer to pay some users for voice recordings to help improve its speech recognition technology. The Verge reports: Facebook will let you make voice recordings as part of a new program called "Pronunciations" in its Viewpoints market research app. If you qualify to be part of the program, Facebook says you'll be able to record the phrase "Hey Portal" followed by the first name of a friend from your friends list. You'll be able to do this with the names of up to 10 friends, and you have to record each statement twice. Facebook won't be paying much for your recordings, though. If you complete one set of recordings, you get 200 points in the Viewpoints app -- and you can't cash out in the Viewpoints app until you earn at least 1,000 points. That only translates to a $5 reward via PayPal. However, Facebook says users may be offered the opportunity to make up to five sets of recordings, so there is the potential to meet that 1,000-point goal and get paid.

More surveillance

[Rick Schumann]

1. Get caught with your hand in the Privacy Cookie Jar
2. Say "We're sorry!" (fingers crossed behind their backs)
3. Offer to pay a pittance to some Useful Idiots to help them improve their Private Information Stealing Technology
4. Steal more Private Information than you ever did before!
5. Profit!

Fuck off, Fecesbook.

Stupid

[AK Marc]

A better thing would be to pay people to create audiobooks. Pay people to read a script, and create a new product at the same time. They'll build their recognition, as they will have the transcript as well as the recording, and do it doing something more "useful" than a billion people reading the same few phrases.

And paying someone for them to read a book to make it an audiobook would give them the "rights" to the readings, and they could do what they want with it.

That they aren't doing that seems to be

Re:

[scdeimos]

And paying someone for them to read a book to make it an audiobook would give them the "rights" to the readings, and they could do what they want with it.

I like your idea, but I'd rather them pay people to read books in the public domain and likewise release the recordings as public domain works.

Re:

[Rick Schumann]

Facebook isn't going to do anything that doesn't directly benefit Facebook. They aren't going to do anything like that as their primary objective.

let's see the menu!

[dindubaggins2]

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Facebook with a recording of me, not enough money

[jmccue]

Well looks like they are trying to fix voice tech, where I live, people who grew up here can never use voice prompts on the phone. They need to repeat things multiple times then hang up swearing. So people here could be useful to them.

With that said, sorry Facebook, no, never, not at all. 200 points, oh boy, don't spend that in 1 place. It is not even real money.

Here is a thought, how about hiring real people and pay real money, like $20US per hour, but I guess large tech companies now want everything t

They aren't paying people

[OpinOnion]

They are giving Facebook points to a tiny fraction of people who sign up.

Voice prints

[AHuxley]

Are not just the play thing of the NSA and GCHQ anymore.
That ad will track every person, accent and past use of any voice detected.

Fuck.....

[MerlTurkin]

....facebook.