Discuss the Protection Strategy of Chinese Dialect Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202412436

Author(s)

Jianlin Wang

Affiliation(s)

Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Abstract

With the prosperity and development of the world economy and the acceleration of the urbanization process, local dialects and cultures are facing unprecedented challenges. Fewer and fewer people use dialects, and some small dialects are facing serious problems of loss and cultural homogenization. As a carrier of regional culture, the protection and inheritance of dialects is not only a hot topic in academic research, but also an urgent need to promote social harmony and maintain cultural diversity. Today's artificial intelligence technology, with its powerful data processing capabilities, natural language understanding and generation capabilities, provides new perspectives and tools for dialect protection. This paper first reviews the historical background and challenges of Chinese dialect protection, and analyzes the limitations of traditional protection methods. Then, the paper analyzes the dialect speech material collection, corpus construction, speech synthesis system construction, virtual reality and augmented reality application, and discusses the potential application of network big data and artificial intelligence technology in dialect protection. Through the study of Hangzhou dialect speech synthesis, the author puts forward that we should pay more attention to the recording and synthesis of dialect speech, and finds a balance point in the dispute of whether we should protect dialects as heritage or continue to inherit them.

Keywords

Dialects; Databases; Speech Synthesis; Artificial Intelligence; Protection Strategies

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