{"id":825,"date":"2016-10-12T18:43:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/tribe-video-chat-transcribes-speech-into-subtitles-and-suggested-links.html"},"modified":"2016-10-12T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:43:52","slug":"tribe-video-chat-transcribes-speech-into-subtitles-and-suggested-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/tribe-video-chat-transcribes-speech-into-subtitles-and-suggested-links.html","title":{"rendered":"Tribe video chat transcribes speech into subtitles and suggested links"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tribe\u2019s voice recognition video chat technology could make Snapchat and Facebook Messenger look outdated. That tech also attracted a $3 million seed round led by prestigious VC Sequoia, its first seed investment of the year.<\/p>\n

Today, Tribe\u2019s one-touch video walkie talkie app<\/a> launches a huge Version 2 update on iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a> powered by access to some unreleased Google voice APIs. You still hold down on a friend or group\u2019s tile to send them a short, asynchronous video message<\/a>. But now Tribe automatically adds subtitles to your video chats. And if it recognizes you\u2019ve said a \u201cMagic Word\u201d, Tribe will offer a helpful related link.<\/p>\n

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Tap a tile to record and send a video message to a friend (left). Tribe\u2019s Magic Words feature recognizes what you say and turns them into buttons that link to directions, calendars, social media, Spotify, Amazon, and more<\/p>\n

Say \u201ccoffee\u201d and Tribe offers a button to send a calendar request overlaid on your video chat. Say a celebrity\u2019s name and it will link to their social media accounts. Products link to Amazon, locations link to maps, and songs playing in the background link to Spotify.<\/p>\n

Cyril Paglino, CEO and Founder of Tribe, calls this \u201caugmented messaging\u201d. He built the features because \u201c<\/span>I want Tribe to be the most convenient app for me and my friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now the question is whether these features are enough to pull people away from the standard messaging apps they use like iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and Snapchat. Those all do video, but Tribe wants to make the format the default way people communicate, with text just for when you have to be quiet or share details people need to copy down.<\/p>\n

Tribe already has 500,000 downloads since its founding in August 2015, and now has 40,000 daily users. It built that community on a meager $500,000 seed round from Ludlow Ventures raised last November. But with the new cash from Sequoia, plus\u00a0Ludlow, Partech Ventures, and Kima Ventures, Tribe is ready to challenge the world\u2019s most powerful chat apps. And if it doesn\u2019t work out, I\u2019m sure one of the tech giants would be happy to scoop up this product team.<\/p>\n

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\u201cProfessional breakdancer\u201d isn\u2019t on the\u00a0r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of most startup founders, but that was actually how Paglino got the idea for Tribe. While signed with Redbull\u2019s dance team, he traveled across Europe making friends. But trying to keep up with them all over text messengers like WhatsApp was too slow. You can\u2019t type as fast as you can think on mobile. But you can talk.<\/p>\n

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The Tribe team in their San Francisco live\/work hacker house<\/p>\n

After building and selling a startup called Wizee in his home of France, Paglino realized he could create an app to solve his typing problem. With Tribe, instead of mashing out long text messages, you simply hold down on the screen, record a video message, and it\u2019s instantly sent to friends. Paglino teamed up with some buddies, rented a hacker house in San Francisco\u2019s secluded Dolores Heights for them to live and work from, and pushed out the MVP of their app in December.<\/p>\n

\"tribe-iphone-6-screenshot-5\"Tribe is still video first, but it\u2019s also adding a text option just in case you need to send someone something they\u2019ll want to copy and paste, like a phone number or address. Tribe is also branching out from just being for personal contacts to allow Telegram-style public rooms. For now you\u2019ll have to watch every video left in the room in order, but the startup is building feedback and ranking features to algorithmically show you the best ones first.<\/p>\n

But the big new feature, Magic Words, could be the key to monetizing messaging without annoying users. Affiliate links to Amazon are one obvious way Tribe could make money. There\u2019s also opportunities for tie-ins with other apps, like pushing people to certain ride-sharing services. Paglino imagines that one day, you might use Tribe to get per-per-minute legal advice or telemedicine from a doctor.<\/p>\n

The first step is mass traction, though, which could be difficult when everyone\u2019s social graphs are already established on other apps. Tribe does let you pull in your Facebook friends, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Facebook cut off access for competing with it<\/a>, which it\u2019s done to messaging apps in the past. Video might be more vivid and less taxing on your thumbs, but not everything needs a face behind it, and utilitarian chat platforms could feel easier than Tribe.<\/p>\n

What Tribe is betting on is that the shift to video will upend these chat apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp that are essentially desktop IRC programs ported to mobile. And with Snapchat\u2019s increased focus on broadcasting of Stories instead of private messaging, there\u2019s a huge open space. Tribe and Sequoia think that can be filled with a video walkie talkie that doesn\u2019t just let you talk instead of type, but actually understands what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

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