Issue 2/2023

In previous columns, I have discussed the importance of connotation and the difficulty of transcribing a speech word for word because of homophones—that is, two different words that sound the [...]

If you happened to be standing on the corner of William Street and Lonsdale Street in Melbourne where the Supreme Court building is situated, on any business day from the 1940s to 1990s, you [...]

Introduction Live subtitling through respeaking makes live events accessible to diverse audiences, such as d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Respeakers utilise automatic speech recognition (ASR) [...]

Introduction The Web Accessibility Directive of the European Union (2016) meant that authorities had to provide their web contents in an accessible way so that people with disabilities could get [...]

Introduction Reliability is one key aim in parliamentary reporting. In this article, I discuss the official video report of the Dutch Parliament from different perspectives: image manipulation [...]

Introduction The use of artificial intelligence (AI) can be deemed morally questionable in certain domains, for example due to ethical and legal concerns. While there might be understandable [...]

Introduction Like many parliamentary reporting offices worldwide, the Official Journal Division (OJD) of the Portuguese Parliament has been seeking technological solutions—specifically, exploring [...]

Introduction Hansard, a verbatim report of legislative proceedings, plays a vital role in the democratic process, ensuring transparency and accountability in government deliberations. In British [...]

The Hansard Services team at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is responsible for producing, broadcasting and publishing reports of the debates and proceedings of the legislature and [...]

Verbatim reporting, transcribing someone’s speech word for word, is often praised for its accuracy. By accuracy, people often mean that the content of the original speech is reported precisely [...]