Thursday 22 May 2014

Facebook Can Now Identify the Song or TV Show You're Enjoying by Using Your Phone's Microphone

Facebook Can Now Identify the Song or TV Show You're Enjoying by Using Your Phone's Microphone

Facebook is listening.
The social network released a Shazam-like update to its mobile app Wednesday that allows you to automatically identify, using your phone’s microphone, the song or TV show you’re watching in Facebook posts.
The optional feature uses audio-recognition technology to match the title, album and artists of millions of songs and up to 160 channels of television programming. That includes everything from the NCAA playoffs to the most recent episode of Veep. 
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Courtesy of Facebook.
It works like this: When you begin to compose a status on your Android or iOS app, you can choose to add what Facebook calls “a feeling” along with an illustrative emoji for context. You’ve probably seen it in your feed before, it’s sort of a subtext tagged onto the end of whatever a person wants to say.

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