Sim Tze Wei showing a tree denoting the common descent of the Chinese people. A linguist has warned of the impending extinction of Hokkien, popularly regarded as one of Penang’s official languages ...

Most artificial intelligence translation to date has been focused on written languages because that is the easiest way to train machine learning systems to understand and translate them. However, more ...

When Sim Tze Wei began working to raise awareness of the Hokkien language, he never expected he would be accused of trying to divide the Chinese people. “Han Chinese nationalists everywhere are keen ...

Meta's Universal Speech Translator project has made a significant developments. Credit: Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a video demonstrating ...

Facebook owner Meta Platforms' new real-time speech translation system for Hokkien, a dialect widely spoken in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, the self-ruled island of Taiwan and Chinese ...

Meta is chugging along on their Universal Speech Translator, which hopes to train an artificial intelligence to translate hundreds of languages in real time. Today, the tech giant claims to have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force has released a propaganda film dubbed into Hokkien, a language strongly identified with ...

In a bid to preserve the Hokkien language, educators yesterday urged the Ministry of Education to tightly regulate Hokkien textbooks for elementary and junior high schools. "This is an important way ...

Several Hakka groups formed a task force yesterday, with support from People First Party (PFP) legislators, to deal with the issue of language usage in the national examinations. They plan to demand ...

Facebook owner Meta Platforms’ new real-time speech translation system for Hokkien, a dialect widely spoken in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, the self-ruled island of Taiwan and Chinese ...