Facebook is offering clients up to $5 through PayPal to record themselves saying “Hey Portal” and afterward list the first names of close to 10 Facebook companions, The Verge reports and Axios has affirmed.

The comprehensive view: Facebook is pitching clients a limited quantity of cash in return for individual information to train its speech recognition tech after reports that it and other Big Tech organizations — Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon — have tuned in to their clients thus without assent.

How it functions: People can quit the Pronunciation program — offered through the site’s recently propelled market research application — whenever, Facebook representative Catherine Anderson told Axios.

By utilizing the recordings to train AI that powers speech recognition and transcription in Facebook products — like Portal, Siri, and Messenger — Facebook can more readily see how names and different words are articulated, she said.

Subtleties: To record yourself, you should be more than 18, living in the U.S. furthermore, have more than 75 Facebook companions, per the Verge.

The organization says that clients’ gathered voice recordings won’t be associated with Facebook profiles, and action accumulated in its market research application won’t be shared on Facebook or its different services without permission, the Verge reports.