NOAA Uses AI to Translate Weather Forecasts into Spanish and Chinese

NOAA is using artificial intelligence to translate weather forecasts and warnings into Spanish and Chinese. This will help provide timely alerts to more people ahead of dangerous storms.

NOAA has trained AI software on weather, water, and climate terminology in Spanish and Chinese. They plan to add more languages like Samoan and Vietnamese.

The translations are being launched experimentally on a website where the public can provide feedback to help improve the quality.

The AI translation allows forecasts to be translated faster, freeing up staff time to focus on forecasting instead of manual translation.

AI translation provides benefits like higher accuracy, easier editing, ability to scale to more languages, and avoiding the need to hire full-time translators.