“What’s in a name?”
“What’s in a name?”, exclaims Juliet to Romeo, arguing, “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”. Though powerful in her loving ardour, Juliet’s adage cannot be [...]
Reporting spoken interviews in journalistic quotes
A quote is an essential part of a journalistic narrative; thus converting spoken utterances into written form is an essential part of journalistic work. Despite this, it is not generally known [...]
Harmonized training in real-time intralingual subtitling
Real-time intralingual subtitling has gained momentum as a profession since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and as legal frameworks have evolved across [...]
Live subtitling at the Dutch House of Representatives
The debate about equal access to online content has been going on for many years. By ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted on 13 December [...]
Speech Capturing and Access at the Senate of Canada
Introduction When Cicero asked his slave Marcus Tullius Tiro to preserve important speeches of the Roman Senate, it was unlikely that shorthand was more than a tool for providing political [...]
The Future of Reporting – 2030
This article aims to spark discussion on two topics concerning the future of professional reporting: the official report of the future and the workplace of the future. In our introduction, we [...]
Italian shorthand machines in the open source era
Introduction After the first personal computers appeared in the late 1980s, shorthand typing underwent a deep computerization process that led it to offer increasingly sophisticated products. [...]
Transcription System using Automatic Speech Recognition in the Japanese Parliament
Introduction The Japanese Parliament (Diet) was founded in 1890. Since the very first session, verbatim records were made by manual shorthand over 100 years. However, early in this century, the [...]
Who was Tiro, and why should we care?
This is the first issue of Tiro – The Journal of Professional Reporting and Transcription. Tiro is an online open-access journal published by Intersteno, the International Federation for [...]
