Chapter 339 - 337: Brave New World (Finale)

With that, he released the record button.

A pop-up window immediately appeared on the TV screen.

[Searching...]

[Search complete. Now playing the first episode of "True Happiness"...]

Soon, the TV screen displayed the first episode of "True Happiness."

Then Zhao Jingcai pressed the record button again: "Episode five."

The system immediately jumped to the fifth episode.

"A nice feature. Very user-friendly for the elderly and children who can't read. But can this thing recognize dialects?" Chen Yanxiu asked curiously.

Zhao Jingcai nodded. "Yes. As long as the TV is connected to the internet, the data analysis center can parse over a thousand common dialects. Even if you speak Minnan, the system can recognize it."

"It seems the company's technology in translation and artificial intelligence is far ahead of Google!"

"Of course. How many employees does Google even have? Our three network technology subsidiaries, Ye Mei, Zhiyun, and Cipu, are behemoths with 870,000 employees."

Chen Yanxiu wasn't particularly surprised by the employee numbers at Homo Sapiens Company's various subsidiaries.

After all, the company's total number of employees had reached 800 million. Subtracting the old, weak, sick, and disabled, the average age of the company's employees was very young, with at least 600 million able-bodied young and middle-aged workers.

Therefore, the scale of each subsidiary's workforce was unprecedentedly massive.

Among Homo Sapiens Company's major subsidiaries, the three major construction and engineering groups had the largest number of employees, totaling around 83 million.

This was one of the reasons Homo Sapiens Company could advance so many infrastructure projects so rapidly. For instance, the Hongsawaddy Branch, one of the first fully autonomous branches to be established, already had a very well-developed set of supporting facilities.

Previously, when Johor belonged to Malaysia, only its subway system was relatively well-developed; other supporting facilities were still under construction.

Kampung City's facilities were better because the area received prioritized support for the development of the electronics industry.

And as the proportion of New Human employees continued to rise, Homo Sapiens Company's talent advantage in various industries was further amplified.

Take the dialect translation problem that concerned Chen Yanxiu, for example. With the cooperation of just a few dozen New Human employees, plus a few more New Humans who could speak the dialect in question, a voice translation database for a single dialect could be built in less than one or two months.

This was a level of manpower investment that would be difficult for Google to match.

Of course, arrogant European and American Enterprises wouldn't bother setting up a dedicated translation project team for a minor language.

But Homo Sapiens Company could do this, and in fact, had to.

For example, in places across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Homo Sapiens Company's internet subsidiaries were now able to suppress Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.

Homo Sapiens Company's core competency lay in its deep cultivation of minor languages and dialects.

Whenever one of Homo Sapiens Company's internet subsidiaries entered a region, they would rapidly create a localized version based on the local language.

At the same time, they would also establish professional liaison departments dedicated to serving users of minor languages.

No matter how dominant English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German were, they were still just the mainstream languages of the Europe and America Region.

But in the vast regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, large populations spoke a wide variety of dialects.

Take Tianzhu, for example, which has 1,652 languages and dialects, and more than 22 official languages.

No matter how powerful Google was, it had no way of building dedicated databases for 1,652 languages and dialects, but Homo Sapiens Company could.

Therefore, in minor language regions, European and American internet enterprises were no match for Homo Sapiens Company.

The amount of high-quality professional talent that each side could invest was on completely different levels.

This was also the core method by which Homo Sapiens Company could now stir up waves of public opinion in the regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America and wage cognitive, cultural, and information warfare against Europe and America.

When the local language could be used, the local people's resistance to Homo Sapiens Company would be greatly reduced. This advantage had a huge multiplier effect in guiding public opinion.

In fact, prioritizing minor languages also served to further consolidate employee loyalty within Homo Sapiens Company.

Why did even Homo Sapiens Company's natural-born employees have such high loyalty to the company? The reason was that they felt valued and respected in their work and daily lives.

If those natural-born employees were suddenly forced to use a specific language, they would definitely feel resentful.

But with 150 million New Humans, Homo Sapiens Company was fully capable of accommodating its natural-born employees who spoke minor languages, reducing communication barriers.

Thus, in the daily work environment within Homo Sapiens Company, it was common to see supervisors, team leaders, factory directors, and managers speaking several languages fluently.

This also made many natural-born employees respect their superiors more. After all, someone who could speak several languages fluently didn't seem like an ordinary person.

...

While watching TV, Chen Yanxiu asked, "Jingcai, do people speak Malay here in Johor?"

"Huh?" Zhao Jingcai scratched his head, recalling his experiences over the past month or so. He suddenly realized that he had rarely encountered any language barriers during that time.

"How should I put it? I've just been speaking Chinese here. Many of my colleagues know Chinese, though some also speak English or Thai. But every department has at least a few people who are multilingual, so there's no need to worry about communication."

"I see. That's a relief," Chen Yanxiu sighed.

Liu Meizhu wiped her young daughter's mouth. "A lot of people here must speak Chinese. I just ran into our next-door neighbor, and her husband speaks Chinese."