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Comment by karmasimida | Hacker News Reader

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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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.

But also remember that accessibility for visually impaired folk is often. A regulatory imperative in those product lines.

Facebook has its own Alexa/Echo like offering. Not sure if Messenger also has voice functionality.

It does, you can do video and voice calling from the Messenger app

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.

Could be used for indexing videos for search

To automatically create subtitles for translation is another use case I have seen

you're forgetting about Facebook Watch, which allows pages to monetize their videos through an ads program just like youtube

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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