Tiro 12 is Out
The twelfth issue of Tiro is out now with 11 new articles on professional reporting and transcription! The themes of this issue range from the use of AI in professional reporting and [...]
Tiro 2/2025
EDITORIAL Eero Voutilainen:Human Reporting ARTICLES D’Arcy McPherson:Balancing Innovation and Continuity: A Human-Centred Approach to AI Integration in Parliamentary Reporting Henk-Jan [...]
How Much do We Really Get From Verbatim Reports?
Communication is far more than the exchange of words. Every time human beings speak, they commit what Sociolinguistics call a speech act (Searle, 1969). This means that people engage in something [...]
Evaluating Parliamentary Transcripts as Data for Sociolinguistic Lifespan Research: A Response to “The Risks of Researching Syntactic Phenomena in Edited Parliamentary Transcripts” (Sigurðsson 2025)
Introduction In his article “The Risks of Researching Syntactic Phenomena in Edited Parliamentary Transcripts” (Sigurðsson 2025), Sigurðsson highlights potential challenges in studying linguistic [...]
LATEST UPDATES FROM THE WORLD OF REAL-TIME SPEECH CAPTURING: A conference report from ICoLS16, the 16th International Conference on Live Subtitling and Speech-to-Text Interpreting
Introduction After the success of the 8th International Symposium on Live Subtitling, held in Barcelona in 2023, and the 7th European Conference on Speech-to-Text Interpreting (ECOS), held in [...]
Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of China’s Stenography Industry
The future is here In 2025, China is experiencing an explosive growth of AI large models. Artificial intelligence is already part of everyone’s daily life, changing the way we live and work. For [...]
The Perspective of University Students When Accessing Live Subtitled Classes
Introduction Only a few years ago, legal restrictions made EMI (English as Medium of Instruction) seem improbable. Today, however, EMI is rapidly expanding throughout Flemish universities. This [...]
Who or What Makes the Decisions in AI-assisted Professional Reporting?
Introduction Automatic speech recognition (ASR), powered by generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) and based on large language models (LLM), has had a remarkable impact on professional [...]
AI-based ASR Tools and Humorous Mix-ups: Rethinking Human Work with Automatic Transcription
Introduction This article examines the experience of implementing STAAR (Sistema de Transcrição Automática da Assembleia da República), focusing on an unexpected challenge that emerges from [...]
The Influence of AI on Grammatical Correction in Portuguese Parliament Plenary Session Reports — First Observations
Introduction This article presents the first part of a study on how the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system of the Portuguese Parliament may influence the grammatical correction of plenary [...]
