Why Meta developed an AI translation system? - FutureTech

In an effort to break down language barriers, Meta has created a new AI translator that can convert spoken languages such as Hokkien into spoken English. Hokkien, a dialect of southern Min Chinese, is primarily spoken and lacks a standard writing system, making it difficult to develop translation tools for it. The open-source translation system, which is part of Meta's Universal Speech Translator (UST) project, has made significant progress in this challenge. The company, formerly known as Facebook, hopes that this, along with other AI methods in development, will eventually allow for real-time speech-to-speech translation across hundreds of languages, including spoken languages. Languages such as Hokkien are difficult to translate because machine translation tools need a large amount of written text to train on, and such languages lack a widely used writing system.