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China launches hi-tech initiative to map and preserve linguistic diversity

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China has launched a new language resources hall at the Hunan Museum in Changsha, showcasing over 100 ethnic minority languages and Chinese dialects. This initiative, developed over a decade with 1,800 survey sites, aims to create a public cultural resource from a vast digital archive of the nation's linguistic diversity. The hall features interactive exhibits, recordings of local dialects and endangered languages, and cultural relics, utilizing digital technology to make language preservation research accessible. AI

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China launches hi-tech initiative to map and preserve linguistic diversity

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Meredith Chen ·

    10 years, 1,800 survey sites: inside China’s hi-tech push to map linguistic diversity

    Speak a few sentences of your hometown dialect into a microphone at a museum in central China, and a machine will pinpoint exactly where you are from. The interactive voice-recognition booth is among star attractions at a new language resources hall that opened on Monday at the H…

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