Meta’s new AI-powered speech translation system for Hokkien pioneers a new approach for an unwritten language Until now, AI translation has mainly focused on written languages. Yet nearly half of the world’s 7,000+ living languages are primarily oral and do not have a standard or widely used writing system. This makes it impossible to build machine translation tools using standard techniques, whic
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