“VKontakte” added the function of decoding video messages

Social network VKontakte” reported about the launch of the function of text transcription of video messages.

“The decryption technology is fully automated and works on the basis of machine learning methods developed by the VKontakte team,” the press release says.

The company noted that three neural networks are engaged in decoding at once, the training of which is carried out on subtitles for films. The acoustic neural network recognizes sounds, the linguistic one forms words from sounds, and the punctuation one breaks the text into sentences and semantic blocks.

It will be possible to decrypt not only received, but also sent video messages, and the received text can be found in the future using a search. At the same time, the maximum duration of video messages was increased to three minutes.

Now the function is available in the web version of the VK messenger and some users of the social network and messenger applications on Android, soon it will also appear on iOS.

The ability to decrypt audio messages on Vkontakte was added in June 2020.

Earlier in November last year, the ability to decrypt video messages was added In the Telegram premium subscription, earlier in the same year, for users who signed up for Telegram Premium, they introduced the ability to prohibit sending them voice and video messages.