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Across oceans, a connection to home
The Qiaopi and Yinxin correspondence and remittance documents were inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2013.
Read Qiaopi in your own voice.
Record in English.
Hear your Qiaopi in Teochew.
- Record Your Voice
- Choose a Character
Listen in Teochew
About Qiaopi
Qiaopi are letters sent by Chinese emigrants to their families back home, often with money enclosed. They carry the everyday hopes and worries of lives lived far apart.
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Your voice, a Qiaopi in Teochew
Record yourself speaking naturally in English. AI uses the sound of your voice to read a Qiaopi from the film Dear You （给阿嬷的情书） in Teochew, the language spoken in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong. The English text is there to help you follow along; the audio is in Teochew.
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Share it with someone you miss
Choose Musheng, Shurou or Nanzhi. Hear their words in a voice that sounds like yours, then share a Qiaopi card with the people who matter to you.
A voice can make the distance
feel a little smaller.
Record 20 seconds
Use your natural voice, as if you were talking to someone at home.
Read this passage aloud
I haven’t been home for a long time. When I was little, my mom came back from the market and told me to wash my hands for dinner. My dad made tea, and my grandparents chatted by the door. When I think of their voices, it still feels like home.
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Your recording is used to create this Qiaopi reading. The generated audio will be in Teochew.
Choose a character
Three voices from Dear You. Choose whose Qiaopi you would like to read.
Bringing your Qiaopi to life
Creating your Teochew reading…
- Preparing your voice recording
- Preparing the Teochew reading
- Creating the reading in your voice
Your voice.
Musheng’s Qiaopi.
Audio in Teochew · English & Chinese text
Musheng’s Qiaopi
In my voice. Audio in Teochew.
About this Qiaopi
Scan the QR code, or press and hold it in WeChat, to listen in Teochew.
A Qiaopi in a familiar voice
Listen to a Qiaopi
Audio in Teochew