As part of Meta AI’s Universal Speech Translator (UST) project, we’re excited to share our first milestone - launching the first AI-powered speech translation system for Hokkien.🎉 There are over 7,000 living languages and more than 40% of them are primarily oral and do not have a writing system. While using computers to translate languages isn’t new, previous efforts largely focus on written languages. We hope that this work will make it easier for speakers of unwritten languages, like Hokkien,