[Lgpolicy] National Weather Service to resume translating its products for non-English speakers

[Francis M. Hult via Lgpolicy]

Associated Press

National Weather Service to resume translating its products for non-English
speakers

The National Weather Service will resume translating its products for
non-English speakers.

The weather service paused the translations this month because its contract
with the provider had lapsed. Experts said the change could put non-English
speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme
weather.

The weather service said Thursday the contract has been reinstated, and the
translations will resume by the end of the day Monday.

Lilt, an artificial intelligence company, began providing translations in
late 2023. That replaced manual translations that the weather service had
said were labor-intensive and not sustainable. It eventually provided them
in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Samoan.

Full story:
https://apnews.com/article/weather-service-spanish-translations-noaa-trump-0753d36b7dd1724898eef86ebf3a920b
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