Times of Islamabad

Facebook Messanger may soon be launching innovative feature

Facebook Messanger may soon be launching innovative feature

*LONDON – Facebook Messenger is all set to launch an innovative feature forits customers across the World.*

*Facebook Messanger may soon let you use your voice to dictate and sendmessages, initiate voice calls and create reminders.*

Messenger for Android’s code reveals a new M assistant button atop themessage thread screen that activates listening for voice commands for thosefunctionalities, reported TechCrunchlink.

Voice control could make Messenger simpler to use hands-free or whiledriving, more accessible for the vision or dexterity-impaired and, perhapsone day, easier for international users whose native languages are hard totype.

Facebook Messenger was previously spotted testing speech transcription aspart of the Aloha voice assistant believed to be part of Facebook’supcoming Portal video chat screen device.

But voice commands in the M assistant are new, and demonstrate an evolutionin Facebook’s strategy since its former head of Messenger David Marcus toldme voice “is not something we’re actively working on right now” inSeptember 2016 onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt.