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Commission presses for improved Spanish translation; forwards recommendation to Gilroy City Council
Summary
The commission endorsed transmitting council correspondence that recommends piloting guaranteed live Spanish translation for meetings after commissioners and community members described persistent problems with Wordly/automated translation and headsets.
The Open Government Commission voted to forward to the city council a recommendation on translation services after commissioners described repeated failures of the existing automated captioning and translation tools.
One commissioner, citing interviews with 17 Latino organizations and observations of meetings in Salinas, San Jose and Watsonville, said the current Wordly automated translations are…
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