Tiro 6 is out!
The second issue of Tiro is out now with 10 great articles from the field of professional reporting and transcription The themes of the issue include creating access with reporting, returning to [...]
Tiro 2/2022
EDITORIAL Eero Voutilainen:Creating Access with Reporting and Transcription ARTICLES Amanda Bavin:Returning to UK captioning on site in the UK – 2022 Niklas Varisto and Riikka Kuronen:A Good [...]
Fanny Times in Live Subtitling – About Synonymy and the Importance of Language Varieties
In my previous Tiro column, I talked about connotation as one of the resources which diamesic translators – professional reporters and transcribers – can rely on to understand what a speaker [...]
“Speech Handling”: Patterns of Gestural Behaviour Under Increased Cognitive Load – A Multimodal Analysis of Simultaneous Interpreting
From multimodality to embodied cognition: interpreting (through) gestures This article illustrates a brief overview of results from an empirical research project, conducted in collaboration with [...]
Speed Differences in Competitive Typing Between Men and Women
Introduction Sport competitions are almost always separated by sex, because there are obvious differences between men and women in their physical strength and abilities. However, when it comes to [...]
Hansard Association of Canada’s Forty-seventh Annual Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Sharing Best Practices This year, the members of the Hansard Association of Canada (HAC) were able to meet in person for the first time since 2019. This delay was an unfortunate situation for [...]
Control and Support: Assisting Parliamentary Reporters (and Everyone Else…)
Success in any organisation depends on the quality of assistance. A strong foundation is a precondition for well-functioning top layers. The assistance division of the Dutch Parliamentary [...]
Web-based Revision: How Speakers in the Dutch Parliament Make Correction Requests Online
Introduction For the last 10 years, speakers in the Dutch Parliament have been able to submit requests for corrections to their reported speeches via a dedicated website managed by the [...]
Automated Speech Recognition: Ears First! Embracing Technological Change at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Hansard Services in British Columbia is marking 50 years of reporting the debates of the Legislative Assembly. The anniversary has been a time for us to reflect on the changes the organisation, [...]
A Good Servant but a Bad Master. Introducing ASR at the Parliament of Finland
Parliamentary reporting was introduced in Finland roughly 160 years ago, but the basic workflow in the Records Office of the Parliament of Finland has not changed much since the early days: we [...]
