Facebook will pay you for your voice recordings, but it’s not worth it

Last year, Facebook said it would stop listening to voice notes in messenger to improve its speech recognition technology. Now, the company is starting a new program where it will explicitly ask you to submit your recordings, and earn money in return. According to a report from The Verge, the social network is commencing this project, called Pronunciations, with its ViewPoints Research app. Notably, ViewPoints is the same app Facebook launched to reward people to take social media surveys. [Read: Microsoft is rolling out beautiful new Windows 10 icons] The report also notes the monetary reward is minuscule. For each recording, you’ll…

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