Issue 1/2025

Those of you who have read – or tried to read! – James Joyce’s Ulysses may remember that the novel revolves around one day’s inner thoughts of its protagonists. One of them, Leopold Bloom, [...]

Introduction In the previous issue of Tiro, Andrew Hill (2024) criticised Finnish quotation practices I had described in this very journal some years back (Haapanen, 2020). Rather than preserving [...]

Introduction Althingi, the Parliament of Iceland, publishes its speeches on the web in video and in edited written transcripts and has over time built a huge open database, with the total speech [...]

Introduction Since 2020, the European Union’s Web Accessibility Directive (2016/2102) has required that audio and video content on public websites must be accompanied by text alternatives in [...]

Introduction to accessibility The Parliamentary Reporting Office of the Dutch parliament celebrated its 175th anniversary on 24 September 2024. Since 1849, reports have been made of the plenary [...]

Introduction This article focuses on parliamentary reporting and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It sheds light on adjusted perspectives on deepfakes and their quality in political context, the [...]

Introduction Thanks to the technological advancement of broadband communications and computing devices, including smartphones, videos have become popular in public and social media.  While [...]

From Amazon to Parrot In 2022, I wrote in Tiro about our vendor-supplied ASR system at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, built on Amazon’s recognition technology (Kerr, 2022). At the [...]

When talking about reporting and transcription, the discussion often turns to accuracy and faithfulness: the quality of a report or transcript is measured by how close it is to the original [...]