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Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

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Re: Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

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Post by londons_explore »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #2

I understand why people use it but as a recipient I really hate voice messages. Here in Spain they are becoming more common too. The problem is as the article mentions. Difficulty searching back, not being able to use Google translate (I'm still learning Spanish), and the time it takes to listen to them. Sending a voice message is faster than typing for the sender but much slower than reading for the recipient which…

I'm really surprised that no chat apps seem to auto-transcribe voice messages.

It would seem obvious for the transcription and the sound file to be available to both sender and receiver of the message.

I think so far the sticking point is that message transcription is still hard to do with any accuracy on-device, and if you use a server then you can't claim e2e encryption.

Re: Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

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Post by hackerbrother »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #2

I understand why people use it but as a recipient I really hate voice messages. Here in Spain they are becoming more common too. The problem is as the article mentions. Difficulty searching back, not being able to use Google translate (I'm still learning Spanish), and the time it takes to listen to them. Sending a voice message is faster than typing for the sender but much slower than reading for the recipient which…

More convenient than voicemail at least. No waiting to dial in to a phone system or needing to remember a PIN you hardly use.

Re: Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

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Post by tut-urut-utut »

OneTimePetes wrote: post #17
GekkePrutser wrote: post #2

I understand why people use it but as a recipient I really hate voice messages. Here in Spain they are becoming more common too. The problem is as the article mentions. Difficulty searching back, not being able to use Google translate (I'm still learning Spanish), and the time it takes to listen to them. Sending a voice message is faster than typing for the sender but much slower than reading for the recipient which…

Yes, i know, no market, no interest in it, but there is this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy It correlates with the wealth in a country. An-alphabets will prefer voice chat.

Is that why people from marketing department rather call IT people on the phone than typing over a messenger? Or god forbid, use an email.

Re: Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

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Post by rvba »

Interesting that Facebook doesnt have a translitetation service to spy on them?

Also it sounds so strange that facebook does not have any Khmer speakers who could help them understand what is going on in the country. How do they translate the site or sell ads there? Or they simply dont, since the market is too small?

Re: Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

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Post by rvba »

Interesting that Facebook doesnt have a translitetation service to spy on them?

Also it sounds so strange that facebook does not have any Khmer speakers who could help them understand what is going on in the country. How do they translate the site or sell ads there? Or they simply dont, since the market is too small?

Re: Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

rvba wrote: post #26

Interesting that Facebook doesnt have a translitetation service to spy on them? Also it sounds so strange that facebook does not have any Khmer speakers who could help them understand what is going on in the country. How do they translate the site or sell ads there? Or they simply dont, since the market is too small?

>How do they translate the site or sell ads there?

Historically, FB used to let users translate the site (presumably they don't do this any more).

And yeah, Cambodia is not a large ad market (not enough rich people) so it's unlikely that they have a sales team based there.

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