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The thirteenth issue of Tiro is now out with 11 new articles on professional reporting and transcription! The themes of this issue range from the different audiences of professional reports to [...]

For the past few years, professional discussion in our field has been dominated by the rise of AI, particularly automatic speech recognition, ASR. They have revolutionised reporting and [...]

Multimodality (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006) is a concept that I have dealt with a lot in my columns. The idea behind it is that diamesic translation professions, such as court and parliamentary [...]

Book review: Deamer, F., Fraser, H., Haworth, K., Komter, M., Loakes, D., Richardson, E., eds. (2024). Capturing talk: The institutional practices surrounding the transcription of spoken [...]

Hansard and the Commonwealth reporting community Did you know that many legislatures across the Commonwealth have named their official report of parliamentary proceedings Hansard, after Thomas [...]

Introduction This article builds on the article published in the last issue of Tiro, which explored the impact of using an automatic transcription system on grammatical corrections in Portuguese [...]

Workflow, well-being, and the quiet art of sustainable change The Challenge of Resilience Parliamentary reporting offices are built on continuity. Our task is to produce a trusted, substantially [...]

Introduction The crucial factors for creating parliamentary reports are probably the same all over the world: time and correctness. These factors are highly related, as quality requires time. So, [...]

Introduction Among parliamentary editors, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to attract widespread attention. The editorial services (dienst Verslaggeving) of the Flemish Parliament (Vlaams [...]

Introduction For more than a decade, the Parliamentary Office of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (PRO) has been actively serving the target group of deaf and hard‑of‑hearing [...]