Meta Corporation unveiled "the first speech translation system powered by artificial intelligence for a non-written language," which successfully translated Hokkien, a spoken language mainly spoken in Taiwan.
Polar Light has learned that the system is part of Meta's artificial intelligence project called the Universal Speech Translator (UST). "The translation system is the first milestone for Meta AI's Universal Speech Translator project, which is focused on developing AI systems that provide real-time speech-to-speech translation in all languages, even none," Meta said in a statement. Text language.” The project is working on developing more real-time speech-to-speech translations so that Metaverse residents can interact more easily.
Most previous AI-driven language translation efforts have focused on written languages, but one of its goals is to translate more languages that lack formal writing systems, Meta said. According to Meta, there are more than 7,000 languages, but "more than 40 percent are primarily spoken languages with no standard or widely known writing system." Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates in a video posted on Facebook In order to use the system to translate Hokkien, Meta said that the tool will be open sourced so that people can use the new artificial intelligence system to translate more languages.