Hans - A system for preparing of verbatim reports

The speech recognition system helps transcribe the speeches given at the rostrum of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The Chancellery of the Riigikogu is currently required to publish a verbatim report within one hour from the end of the sitting. It takes a lot of human effort to do that, and the burden falls on stenographers. By deploying speech recognition, it will increase the efficiency and accuracy in transcripts of the sessions. Also, the plan is to start providing verbatim recordings as machine-readable open data, so other systems can use that data freely as well.