Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Is it raining out? Press one for English...

The National Weather Service is no longer providing language translations of its products, a change that experts say could put non-English speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme weather.
The weather service has “paused” the translations because its contract with the provider has lapsed, NWS spokesperson Michael Musher said. He declined further comment. Lilt, an artificial intelligence company, began providing translations in late 2023, replacing manual translations that the weather service had said were labor-intensive and not 'sustainable'.


3 comments:

  1. Youtube uses a lot of computer generated narration and it mispronounces words all the time. I don't feel sorry for people who don't speak English because most of them expect us to cater to them.

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  2. if they are here legally they should learn to be conversant in English.
    If they are illegals tuffski-shitzki - self-deport and go back home where the weather reports are in their native language.

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