Facebook adds lip syncing feature to Portal speakers - Tech News Digest

Monday, 16 December 2019

Facebook adds lip syncing feature to Portal speakers

Facebook adds lip syncing feature to Portal speakers

By most accounts, sales of Facebook's Portal devices have been pretty dismal. Now, the company is turning to a familiar source on inspiration in an effort to boost sales ahead of the holidays: TikTok.

The company introduced a new, TikTok-like update to its Portal lineup called Mic Drop, a lip syncing feature that lets users sing along to popular music during video calls. 

Facebook introduced Mic Drop amid a slew of other updates to its camera-connected smart home devices. 

Mic Drop "lets you sing along with popular song clips and perform them on an AR stage during a call," the company explains. If that sounds familiar, it might be because Facebook previously tested a lip syncing feature for Facebook's Live called Lip Sync Live. Read more...

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