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NWS Drops Non-English Translations After Budget Cuts
AdWeek via Yahoo ^ | 4/9/25 | Kevin Eck

Posted on 04/10/2025 4:51:05 PM PDT by DallasBiff

The National Weather Service has paused automation that provided language translations to severe weather alerts after the government contract paying for the services expired.

The contract for artificial intelligence modeling used to send emergency alerts in different languages is just one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contracts that lapsed this week

The translations have been provided by Lilt, an artificial intelligence company, since 2023. It provided them in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Samoan. The contract lapse comes as President Donald Trump's administration cuts spending at federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that have led to high employee vacancy rates at NWS offices.

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To: DallasBiff

I kind of wish the NWS would go old school on some maps.

I liked the H and L placed about. It did give me some idea of the jet stream and why we were having a winter blast or a heat wave.

I guess it is just what you are used to.


21 posted on 04/10/2025 7:51:52 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: brookwood

Qué lástima

The same, in Spanish.


22 posted on 04/10/2025 8:14:26 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at all)
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To: metmom

My Polish grandparents refused to speak Polish in the house. “We are Americans now.”


23 posted on 04/10/2025 8:22:31 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: DallasBiff

We Americans don’t have to be all things to all people.


24 posted on 04/10/2025 9:10:50 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: DallasBiff

What about Zulu?


25 posted on 04/10/2025 9:11:34 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Organic Panic

My grandparents still spoken Ukrainian or Polish in the house and among their friends and relatives, but if someone was around who they knew didn’t know the language, they spoke English.

They considered it exceedingly rude to speak a language someone didn’t understand in front of them because that person could not know if they were being spoken about.


26 posted on 04/11/2025 5:18:00 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: DallasBiff

Malicious compliance. AI is basically free translation.


27 posted on 04/11/2025 1:23:48 PM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas)
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