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 ...

Local TikToker Ong Yi Ting creates unique Hokkien content that has led to a large following Since her first viral post in May 2021, there have been many other TikTokers who have jumped on the ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The front row at the getai concert, a Chinese musical show, was empty. But this was not for lack of popularity -- the seats were reserved for ghosts. Getai, a traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hokkien for everyone: Timothy posing for a photo during the launch of Penang Hokkien Dictionary in Penang. ­– CHAN BOON KAI/The Star THOSE wanting to learn Penang’s unique Hokkien dialect can now do ...

SINGAPORE — The Tok and Teo families are a model of traditional harmony, with three generations gathered under one roof, enjoying each other’s company over slices of fruit and cups of tea on a ...

PETALING JAYA: Chinese dialects, once frequently spoken by the Chinese community, seem to be fading from daily use as Mandarin takes centre stage. So, amid growing concern over the loss of a vital ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Over 20,000 students took Taiwan’s Hokkien Language Proficiency Exam on Saturday (Aug. 5), the highest number of test takers to enroll since the Ministry of Education began ...

SINGAPORE – A couplet from the Heng San Teng temple in Silat Road, which was razed to the ground in a massive fire in 1992, will be on public display for the first time in December at the Singapore ...