[EAS] Serving Multilingual audience

[Ray Dall]

"BUT--that kicks the political ball back into the government's court. Requires money to be spent to hire bi-lingual employees."

Does it really now?
Let's think about this shall we?  MUCH of what is sent by the EAS system is so generic that it can be simplified down to a simple three letter code (TOR, SVR, etc).  Once those simple codes (TOR = Tornado Warning) is interpreted and an audio file made for those codes, the rest is surperfluous.

If we can have a garmin tell us which way to turn a car, certainly we can have an EAS box simply speak to us and tell us
"There is a TORNADO WARNING for the following counties..."

They need not have full time employees - just a one time interpretation into the various languages, then have the box do it from there.  The Fed can even do it, and I'll bet that working somewhere in our federal government, is some military guy who already, as part of his job, is an interpreter - already bought and paid for by our tax dollars.