Strategies in Diamesic Translation
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 [...]
Modalities of Audiovisual Translation: Completing The Spectrum
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 [...]
Artificial Intelligence and Computer-Assisted Interpreting: Which Future for Professional Live Reporters and Subtitlers?
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 [...]
Respeaking in the Danish Parliament’s Hansard
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 [...]
Towards a Substantially Verbatim Official Report Using Automatic Speech Recognition
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 [...]
Reporting South African Sign Language in the Official Parliamentary Hansard Record
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 [...]
Bilingualism in the Official Report of the Irish Houses of Parliament
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 [...]
Training Staff to Report the Select Committees of the House of Commons in the UK
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 [...]
The Electronic Reference Work of the Danish Parliament
Introduction Tensions can run high when the politicians debate in the chamber of the Danish Parliament, Folketinget. The elected politicians are speaking in many different ways, for example based [...]
Showing and Telling: Two Approaches to Reporting and Transcription
Introduction The conventional term “verbatim report” is only a useful simplification of official transcripts. Not all sections in a report are usually verbatim. Most reports alternate between [...]
