Facebook launching Clubhouse rival this summer

New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Alarmed at the popularity of invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse, Facebook is launching a similar product called Live Audio Rooms which will also be available on Messenger this summer.Announcing multiple social audio products, the company said on Monday that it will test Live Audio Rooms in Groups, making it available to the 1.8 billion people using Groups every month and tens of millions of active communities on Facebook.”As part of this initial rollout, we’ll also bring Live Audio Rooms to public figures so they can host conversations with other public figures, experts and fans,” said Fidji Simo, Head of Facebook App.”In addition to bringing this to Facebook, we also plan to release Live Audio Rooms on Messenger this summer so you can easily hang out with your friends, too,” Simo added.Facebook announced multiple products that emphasise voice content over text, images, or video.The company said it is building a set of new audio creation tools and will make them available in an audio creation tool directly inside the Facebook app. You will be able to use music from Facebook’s Sound Collection in the background of your story to set the tone.These audio creation tools will…
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