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The ninth issue of Tiro is out now with 11 brand new articles on professional reporting and transcription! The themes of the issue include the division between narration and transcription in [...]

EDITORIAL Eero Voutilainen:You Cannot Say the Same Thing Twice ARTICLES Eero Voutilainen:Showing and Telling: Two Approaches to Reporting and Transcription Michael Ejstrup:The Electronic [...]

In the era of AI, all that once looked extremely difficult and requiring skilled talents to be accomplished is now at a click’s distance. Or at least this is what it seems. In fact, AI does not [...]

BOOK REVIEW: Reverter Oliver, B., Martínez Sierra. J.J., González Pastor, D. & Carrero Martín, J. F. (Eds.) (2021). Modalidades de traducción audiovisual: Completando el espectro. Editorial [...]

The Origins of Language Technologies The developments of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics in the field of written language (machine translation or MT), which started in the [...]

Introduction During the last couple of decades, the Danish Parliament’s Hansard has taken a series of innovative technological steps forward in the production of the official report. One of the [...]

In this article, we discuss the Official Report of what is said in plenary and committee meetings of the Scottish Parliament. We have been piloting the use of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech [...]

Addressing Inclusivity in Parliamentary Hansard Reporting In a groundbreaking decision during a hybrid plenary sitting on 23 May 2023, the National Assembly of South Africa approved the inclusion [...]

Introduction The Republic of Ireland has two official languages.  Article 8.2 of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish Constitution, describes Irish as “the national language” and the “first [...]

Introduction: The Challenges of Reporting Select Committees Select Committees have been a feature of Parliament for centuries. Each has a particular remit, which, in many cases, is to scrutinise [...]