Welsh Translation turnaround could be a day slower due to cut human translators
Welsh language translation services at Powys County Council face an extra day delay due to proposed cuts in the 2021/22 budget,

At a meeting of the Economy, Residents, Communities and Governance scrutiny committee on Thursday, January 28, councillors were told that this was part of £116,000 savings proposed by the Transformation and Communication Service.
Last week the council’s Independent/Conservative Cabinet agreed a draft budget that proposed a 3.9 per cent increase in Council Tax and £11.828 million that needs to be cut or saved in 2021/22.
Head of Transformation and Communication, Emma Palmer explained: “We may see a hit on our performance, instead of a turnaround of five days in our Welsh translation, we may have to accept it will be in six days.
“In this quarter we will roll out Microsoft Translate, and do a communication campaign internally, so that staff can do their own translation using the technology available for us.”
The Welsh Parliament/Senedd worked with Microsoft in 2013/14 to include Welsh in its list of languages that can be translated by the software.