Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab writes about how Dow Jones Newswires launched a new AI language service in French, allowing readers to access automated translations of breaking financial and investment news in real time.
Deck reports, “The French service is just the latest expansion of the company’s AI-powered translations, following the launch of similar services for both Korean and Japanese late last year.
“‘It gives us an ability to very quickly, almost instantaneously, translate our very rich existing English-language content into a language that will attract other audiences,’ Chip Cummins, chief Newswires editor at the Wall Street Journal, told me. Cummins said those audiences include professionals ‘who prefer to read their business news in their native language or who are suddenly tapping into the U.S. market as a place where they want to invest, or their clients are investing.’
“Dow Jones Newswires offers financial news on global markets, commodities, central banks, and politics, including original reporting and analysis from The Wall Street Journal. Its reporting is often fed directly into trading terminals, at times competing with financial newswires from Bloomberg and Reuters. Its readers are often using this reporting to make fast-paced, high-stakes decisions about where to move their money. This makes the new services a pressure test of sorts for AI-powered translation — or machine translation, as it is more commonly known — in newsrooms.”
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