"One is algorithmic sampling of the stream every five to seven seconds, analyzing it, and taking actions accordingly. "The method of monitoring live streaming video today is twofold," TMG CEO Geoff Cook told ZDNet. The Meet Group and Spectrum Labs are partnering to record content at the right time and proactively and cost-effectively detect toxicity, improve accuracy for moderators, and expand safety measures for users, TMG said. Recording, analyzing content at the right time Existing methods of AI voice moderation are slow, tedious, and cost-prohibitive, because they require voice content to be transcribed before the text AI can be applied. Voice moderation is currently a major challenge because recording all content is not possible nor privacy-friendly in an ephemeral live-streaming video context, TMG said. Hate and personally abusive speech are increasing in many channels, as social-networking companies have reported.
Its mobile apps are available on iOS and Android in multiple languages. The company has registered millions of mobile daily active users and facilitates tens of millions of conversations daily. The Meet Group owns several mobile social networking services including MeetMe, hi5, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and Tagged. The Meet Group, which develops software for interactive dating websites, and Spectrum Labs, which makes an AI-based audio-content moderation platform, on July 27 announced an expansion of their partnership to include a significant R&D commitment into voice moderation aimed at protecting users from online toxicity in TMG's live-streaming applications. While Facebook, Twitter, Google and other popular web-service providers are busy deploying legions of people to mitigate online toxicity in the forms of hate speech, bullying, and sexual/racial abuse, two lesser-known companies have come together in a new research and development project to try and resolve these problems in the live-streaming video industry. "Business dating" app Shapr made around 1.1 million matches last year in New York, and about the same number in Paris.