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Manassas leaders aim to meet the demands of Spanish speakers, consider translation software


Manassas wants to make it easier for people to understand what their leaders are saying.

On Monday, July 18, the City Council discussed new translation tools the government could use to engage with non-English speakers. The second-most spoken language in the city is Spanish.

City Councilman Mark Wolfe pushed for the use of Google Translator, an application for phones and tablet computers that listens to audio, transcribes it, and then displays the text of what's being said on a screen in the user's native language.

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