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"Tiro – The Journal of Professional Reporting and Transcription" is an online open access journal Tiro is published twice a year.

Here at Tiro, we publish concise professional articles on all fields on speech capturing, speech-to-text reporting and transcription. We aspire to contribute to the development of reporting and transcription as professions by publishing innovative, high-quality content, and by providing a constructive forum for professional discussion. We do not pay or charge for publication.

10/11/2025

An article by Kristján F. Sigurðsson, an editor for speeches and documents in the publishing department of Althingi, the Parliament of Iceland, was published in our latest edition. Kristján gives us interesting insight into the linguistic phenomena of an MP’s speech.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2025/06/the-risks-of-researching-syntactic-phenomena-in-edited-parliamentary-transcripts/

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02/10/2025

Editor-in-chief of Tiro and lead of the cross-administrative linguistic accessibility team in the Finnish Parliament, Eero Voutilainen and his colleague, Finnish parliamentary reporter Riikka Kuronen, investigate how national parliaments in Europe make their text alternatives when adhering to the European Union’s Web Accessibility Directive (2016/2102), which requires “that audio and video content on public websites must be accompanied by text alternatives in order to make them accessible for all, including people with disabilities.” In this article, they share the findings of their research.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2025/06/the-production-of-text-alternatives-for-video-recordings-in-european-parliaments/

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22/09/2025

Anneke Faaij-Nulle, who works in the Dutch House of Representatives, explains how debates are made transparent through parliamentary reports, and questions if they’re usable for everyone. To that end, she takes us through the process of expanding accessibility and transparency, thereby ensuring people are better informed about topics which affect them.

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https://tiro.intersteno.org/2025/06/developing-accessibility-in-the-parliamentary-reporting-office-of-the-dutch-house-of-representatives/

16/09/2025

In 2023, we published an article by Henk-Jan Eras, a Quality Officer in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and Tiro editorial team member, on the impacts and dangers of deepfakes in parliamentary video reports. In his latest article, Henk-Jan updates us on adjusted perspectives regarding political deepfakes, as well as the new EU AI Act 2024, and more.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2025/06/taking-stock-of-artificial-intelligence-from-the-perspective-of-parliamentary-reporting-in-2025/

03/09/2025

“How can we use official meeting transcripts for video captions?” That’s one of the questions asked by three Japanese professors who have authored this article in our latest edition.

The Japanese parliament sees as it a straightforward solution. To find out why, how, and more 👉🏻 https://tiro.intersteno.org/2025/06/captioning-parliamentary-meeting-videos-using-official-meeting-transcripts/

Respectively, Tatsuya Kawahara, Yuya Akita and Mikitaka Masuyama are professors at the Kyoto University’s School of Informatics, School of Economics, and at the Japanese National Graduate Institute for Policy.

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21/08/2025

Dan Kerr, the Manager of Publishing Systems at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in Canada, walks us through how an ASR and AI approach has been implemented, with ever-continuing improvements, in the BC parliament.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2025/06/harnessing-whisper-at-the-legislative-assembly-of-british-columbia-a-user-driven-approach-to-ai-supported-parliamentary-reporting/

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28/07/2025

In his editorial for our latest edition, Eero Voutilainen says, “This issue brings us many new perspectives on professional reporting and transcription.”

With articles ranging from AI to ASR, accessibility to text alternatives for video recordings, and three different reporting principles, you’ll find the brief synopsis from our editor-in-chief the perfect way to begin a jam-packed edition.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2025/06/reporting-for-new-understanding/

16/06/2025

Alice Pagano, PhD, in this article, discusses how “intralingual live subtitles can be created through different modes, one of which is the technique of respeaking” and focuses on a study of one session of the Rome City Council and the different modes used.

Alice is a post-doc researcher and adjunct lecturer in Spanish Language and Translation at the University of Trieste, Italy, who also has worked as an interpreter, translator and post-editor.

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https://tiro.intersteno.org/2024/12/verbatim-vs-edited-live-parliamentary-subtitles/

21/05/2025

In this article, Julia Matzenberger discusses the complex task of speech-to-text interpreting and delves into a pioneering experiment measuring eye fixation and other optical trackers to determine visual attention patterns of the interpreter.

It truly is a fascinating read.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2024/12/visual-attention-during-speech-to-text-interpreting-results-from-an-eye-tracking-study/

14/04/2025

The service of providing minutes of proceedings in what is now known as the Turkish Grand National Assembly began in 1878.

Kadriye Aktay, a stenographer of the Presidency of Minutes Services, tells us that nowadays, “One president, four vice-presidents, 72 stenographers and 27 expert stenographers work in the Record Services Directorate.” Kadriye goes on to explain the stenographer recruitment process and the working procedures of stenographers in the assembly in the article linked below.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2024/12/the-presidency-of-minutes-services-in-turkey/

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01/04/2025

Deru Schelhaas, a parliamentary reporter in the Dutch House of Representatives, investigates and tests relevant technical developments in his field of work. For Tiro, he shared with us some of the results of his findings.

https://tiro.intersteno.org/2024/12/responsible-experimentation-with-generative-ai-for-parliamentary-reporting/

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