That is because Hokkien is mainly a spoken language.

这是因为闽南语主要是一种口语。

Hokkien is a version, or dialect, of Chinese.

闽南语是汉语的一种版本，即方言。

In addition, developers used an encoding tool designed to compare spoken Hokkien to similar English text.

此外，开发人员还使用了一种编码工具来比较闽南语口语和类似的英语文本。

The AI-powered tool was built to translate between English and the Hokkien language.

这款人工智能工具是用于进行英语和闽南语互译的。

The team also worked closely with Hokkien speakers to ensure correct results.

该团队还与说闽南语的人密切合作，以确保结果正确。

This is because Hokkien is mainly a spoken language and does not have a widely used written form.

这是因为闽南语主要是一种口语，没有广泛使用的书面形式。

In addition, Meta developers used an encoding tool designed to compare spoken Hokkien to similar English text.

此外，Meta开发人员使用了一种编码工具，用来比较闽南语口语与类似的英语文本。

Meta's latest system involving Hokkien was developed as part of its Universal Speech Translator project.

Meta最新的涉及闽南语的系统是作为其通用语音翻译器项目的一部分开发的。

Meta said it trained its AI models on written text examples from Mandarin Chinese, which is similar to Hokkien.

Meta表示，其利用类似于闽南语的普通话的书面文本示例来训练人工智能模型。

The team also worked closely with Hokkien speakers to make sure the results were correct.

该团队还与说闽南语的人密切合作，以确保结果的正确性。

We're open-sourcing our Hokkien translation models, evaluation datasets and research papers so that others can reproduce and build on our work.

我们正在开源我们的闽南语翻译模型、评估数据集和研究论文，以便其他人可以复制和构建我们的工作。

Meta said it used several different methods to create the new system to translate to and from Hokkien and English.

Meta表示，它使用了几种不同的方法来创建这个新的系统，以便在闽南语和英语之间进行翻译。

The company said, however, that its Hokkien translation model " is still a work in progress."

不过，该公司表示，其闽南语翻译模式“仍在进行中”。

The team trained its AI models on written text examples from another version of Chinese, Mandarin, which is similar to Hokkien.

该团队使用类似于闽南语的普通话的书面文本示例对其人工智能模型进行了培训。

Meta notes that Hokkien is one of nearly 3,500 living languages that are mainly spoken and do not have a widely used writing system.

Meta指出，闽南语是现存的近3500种语言中的一种，这3500种语言主要是口语，并没有广泛使用的书写系统。

The unusual part of the Meta project is that the development team did not have large amounts of Hokkien language text to feed into the AI system.

该Meta项目的不同寻常之处在于，开发团队没有在人工智能系统里输入大量闽南语文本。

Meta said it aims to use the same methods used for Hokkien to create speech-to-speech translation systems for many more languages in the future.

Meta表示，它的目标是在未来使用与闽南语翻译系统相同的方法为更多语言创建语音转语音翻译系统。

" I never thought of making a sandwich when I was young as I was always surrounded by Peranakan, Malay and Hokkien cuisine, " he tells CNN Travel.

他在接受CNN旅游频道采访时表示：“我小时候从未想过要做三明治，因为我总是被土生华人菜、马来菜和闽南菜包围。”

This is Hokkien prawn noodles or Hokkien fried noodles, and it's a very Singaporean dish because this is the only place in the world you get this style of fried prawn noodles.

这是福建虾仁面或福建炒面，是非常地道的新加坡菜，因为全世界只有这里可以吃到这种虾仁炒面。

To address this challenge, we've built the first AI-powered speech-to-speech translation system for Hokkien, a primarily oral language that's widely spoken within the Chinese diaspora but lacks a standard written form.

为了应对这一挑战，我们为闽南语构建了第一个人工智能语音到语音翻译系统，闽南语是一种主要的口头语言，在海外华人中广泛使用，但缺乏标准的书面形式。