Seeing the rising interest among the youth toward Cantonese, Duolingo launched its first dialect course — Cantonese for Mandarin speakers — in 2022.

看到年轻人对广东话越来越感兴趣，Duolingo于2022年推出了第一门方言课程——面向普通话使用者的广东话。

At a Funiutang outlet in Zhongguancun, in the Haidian district of Beijing, all the service and kitchen staff wear black T-shirts inscribed with the word baman, Hunan dialect meaning never give up, dare to say no and be yourself, Zhang said.

As a foreigner-turned-internet celebrity in China, Derksen looks at Chinese stereotypes, speaking the local dialect fluently in his self-made video episodes.

"Seven" sounds like "eat "in the local dialect.

In Thailand, where dialects may vary, Webnovel collaborates with local reading platform Ookbee to help localize and distribute works.

Du wrote the rap song in Wuxi dialect to show the development of the IoT industry in Wuxi.

"As most of us speak the local dialect here, people think we are pretentious speaking in Mandarin when shooting the videos," Zhang said.

Most electric vehicles or EVs now available in the Chinese market can adjust seating and other personalized things automatically for the driver thanks to facial ID technology, and the driver uses voice commands, with different dialects recognizable, to do everything from navigation to music and air conditioning adjustments.

It is capable of voice command in Mandarin, Cantonese, English and China's Sichuan dialect.

They tend to emphasize the number of sensors that are used in a model, how smooth and natural the driver-vehicle dialogue is even when dialects are spoken, and just how easy it is for the vehicle to park itself in a confined space.

They tend to emphasize how many pieces of lidar are used, how the model can adjust itself based on facial recognition, how smooth and natural the driver-vehicle dialogue can be even in dialects, and how easy it can park itself at narrow parking spaces.

Since there are a large number of dialects across China, Engel said Mercedes-Benz has worked with regional voice recognition companies to come up with localized solutions.

"For example, models from international brands, even premium ones, do not work well in terms of voice recognition, especially when it comes to dialects.

They can recite poems, and they understand and speak dialects.

Speaking in the capital of southwestern Sichuan province, he said: "I was told this smart voice control system can even understand the Sichuan dialect, thanks to BMW's Natural Language Understanding technology localized in China and for China.

The news release said that the funds raised in the round will be used to help Fano Labs expand the Chinese call center industry, where various Chinese dialects and managers' limited time impede the efficiency of dealing with a large number of calls recorded for legitimate matters, performance evaluations and checking customer feedback.

Fano Labs’ solution for multiple dialects allows for this rewind of the Tower of Babel story,” Horizons Ventures’ Phil Chen said.

Performed in local dialects and once enjoyed by both royalty and ordinary people, it has been experiencing a decline as the result of the impact of modern forms of entertainment.

"We now have teammates speaking with accents from everywhere in the country rather than just 'Dongbeihua' (Northeast China dialect) back then," Wu joked about the wider representation of winter sports talent at the national camp.