What does “verbatim” mean?
The word “verbatim” is a very common word among the reporting, transcription, and subtitling professions. “Verbatim” is not just a technical term, it is also a term used in everyday language. To [...]
LiveTextAccess: a European contribution to training in respeaking and velotyping
Introduction Real-time intralingual subtitling services have become more and more significant since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006. Training [...]
The F-keyboard: The History and Contemporary Use of the Turkish Standard Keyboard Layout
Introduction: The Vision of Ihsan Yener The Turkish Standard Keyboard Layout, often called the F-keyboard, was created in 1955 by Ihsan Yener PhD (1925–2016). Having graduated from the Istanbul [...]
Cloud-based ASR solutions: Some notes for professional reporters
Innovations most often come in waves, and the third industrial revolution, promising the digitalisation of manufacturing, happens to coincide with the third wave of automatic speech recognition [...]
Learning from the Pandemic: the British-Irish Parliamentary Reporting Association virtual symposium, 27 to 29 July 2021
A virtual symposium After being unable to host delegates in Edinburgh in 2020, this year reporters and editors from the Scottish Parliament’s Official Report held the British-Irish Parliamentary [...]
The Dreaded F-Word – Dealing with Filibustering in Parliamentary Reporting
It was on Tuesday 11 May 2021 that we first heard rumours of an upcoming filibuster in Parliament. None of us at the Records Office had experienced it ourselves, but most of us had heard enough [...]
From center stage to side-lines: negotiating the position of parliamentary reporters in the plenary hall
Introduction Early in 2015, both the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Netherlands started planning to move house. This was after it had become clear that the then-occupied historic [...]
Reporting the Chairperson’s Speech in the Official Parliamentary Report: Useless Noise or Essential Information?
Introduction Since the beginning of 2021, parliamentary reporters in the Finnish Parliament have included the chairperson’s speaking turns between the MPs’ speeches in the official report. [...]
Official Reports and Significant But Non-verbal Events
Introduction In an earlier paper in Tiro (Vice 2020), I touched on the question of how official reports can deal with significant non-verbal events. Reporting these events is challenging because [...]
The Politics of Reporting
As professional reporters and transcribers, we like to think of ourselves as neutral and objective in our work: our goal is to capture speech in written form, and we do it as reliably and [...]
