Dow Jones launches AI-powered French service

Dow Jones Newswires has launched an AI-powered French translation service, expanding its multilingual offering for real-time financial news. The new service delivers between 500 and 1,000 translated stories every day, building on previous launches in Korean and Japanese.

The rollout is aimed at professionals who want to follow US market news in French, including investors in France, French-speaking clients in New York and London, and Canadian firms affected by US tariffs. It translates English-language content from Dow Jones wires and The Wall Street Journal, with a focus on speed and fluency.

“We’re targeting users who prefer to read in their native language or are newly engaging with US markets,” said Chip Cummins, Chief Newswires Editor at the Wall Street Journal.

Dow Jones faces a particular challenge with financial translation, where accuracy and speed are critical. Machine translation tools can struggle with jargon or less widely modelled languages, but the company has developed a system that allows it to switch between AI models to improve output in each language.

Human oversight is a part of the process. Native French-speaking translators reviewed samples for fluency ahead of launch, and an internal editorial team with financial expertise carried out quality checks. Feedback was used to refine the models before going live.

The company has long offered human translation in Japanese, Chinese and German, supported by specialist glossaries and style guides. These have now been adapted for use with AI models. Where equivalent resources did not exist – such as in Korean and French – generative AI was used to help create them. Dow Jones editors continue to carry out spot checks to maintain quality.

Machine-translated stories include a disclaimer noting that the English version remains authoritative, but Dow Jones says its goal is to meet the same accuracy standards as its core English-language wires.

Dow Jones is now trialling further AI enhancements in its German service and has hired editors for other language launches still under wraps.

Source: Noah Wire Services

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