Facebook’s rumoured AI entity, Aloha, was leaked again. But this time, along with the voice assistant Aloha, Facebook’s smart speaker Portal was divulged as well. The new feature was spotted in the Android Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps. It is rumoured that it can connect to WiFi and Bluetooth devices outside its own network.
Facebook, it seems, has finally decided to join the voice computing revolution by readying itself to publicize its long-speculated smart speaker. Apparently, the smart speaker would have been launched way earlier had the social networking giant not gotten embroiled in the notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal.
According to the latest reports, Facebook’s ‘Project Aloha’ is still active. Smart reverse engineering by a developer has managed to unearth some hints regarding Facebook’s Aloha’s looks. As per original intentions, Facebook’s smart speaker codenamed ‘Portal’ and ‘Aloha’ were in planning for a while but earlier this year this was put on hold.
Jane Manchun Wong is the developer who stumbled upon the voice assistant feature Aloha in the Android Messenger app. For a short while, she even managed to converse with the intrinsic ‘voice testing tool Aloha’. The feature currently seems to be pretty rudimentary with only the interface and some uncomplicated ‘speech-to-text’ identification presently functional.
Wong also saw the words ‘your mobile device is now connected to Portal’ displayed while she was in conversation with the voice assistant Aloha. As per TechCrunch, this re-establishes the fact that Facebook has named its smart speaker Portal.
Aloha and Portal: Features
Wong witnessed the voice assistant transcribe text in a mock UI. Considering how smart assistants usually operate this could have been the social media company ensuring its AI’s foundation. This needs to be done as only once this stage is cleared can Facebook move towards testing complex instruction sets for their digital voice assistant. Basing their expectations on Google and Amazon’s smart voice assistant, the users are expecting Aloha to be similarly feature outfitted.
As per Wong’s tweets, yet-to-be-launched smart speaker Portal will be paired using either WiFi or Bluetooth LE. This suggests that Facebook is looking to utilize Aloha as an assistant across multiple operating environments.
Another interesting feature discovered by Wong was the voice messaging that is exclusively for Instagram. According to TechCrunch, the user need only speak into Instagram to forward audio-clips like a walkie-talkie.
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