{"id":272791,"date":"2018-08-22T07:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T05:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=272791"},"modified":"2018-08-22T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T05:56:37","slug":"facebook-testing-aloha-speech-recognition-feature-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/272791-facebook-testing-aloha-speech-recognition-feature-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing &#8220;Aloha&#8221; speech recognition feature &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook may be testing a new speech recognition feature called &#8220;Aloha&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>App investigator Jane Manchun Wong has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wongmjane\/status\/1031840962958512129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>discovered<\/strong><\/a> a new speech recognition feature in the Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps for Android.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Aloha&#8221; feature transcribes voice to text from the app&#8217;s user interface, and the tool&#8217;s testing code also refers to external Wi-Fi or Bluetooth devices.<\/p>\n<p>It is speculated that Facebook may build Aloha to function as a cross-platform digital assistant, similar to Google Assistant or Siri.<\/p>\n<p>Wong also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wongmjane\/status\/1032017399011307520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>found hints<\/strong><\/a> that Facebook is working on a smart speaker called Portal.<\/p>\n<p>Portal will reportedly pair to a user&#8217;s smartphone using either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ddRt_mVRoUQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/271877-facebook-bans-sale-of-kodi-boxes.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook bans sale of Kodi boxes<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook may be testing a new speech recognition feature called &#8220;Aloha&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[53305,47622,161,32848,4206],"class_list":["post-272791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-aloha","tag-digital-assistant","tag-facebook","tag-portal","tag-voice-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272795,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272791\/revisions\/272795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}