Artificial Intelligence Era in Keeping Parliamentary Records

Every speech made in the parliament and every committee session are officially recorded. Stenographers, the people who keep these records, will soon begin to receive support from artificial intelligence. Developed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly and TÜBİTAK Minutes Information System Project When activated, artificial intelligence will recognize the speakers and transcribe their words.

Making statements on the subject Head of Turkish Grand National Assembly Minutes Services Muhsine ÇevikHe stated that there were 99 stenographers in his unit. Stating that parliamentary records have been kept since the last years of the Ottoman Empire, Çevik said that they took part in a total of 1073 meetings in the 27th term of the Parliament and that in total 312 thousand 402 pages He stated that a report was kept. The total duration of the work is 8 thousand 974 hours and 44 minutes.

Conversations will be transcribed with artificial intelligence

It is a project that has been going on for about 1.5 years. Minutes Information System Project Giving information about theIn the Record Information System, after the speaker speaks, our stenographers will now work as expert stenographers and check the transcribed text. Our controls are always too much. Then our expert will check it via computer, then our vice president. Our officer will no longer do the merging process. He will find the common word and combine it. This system is the Record Information System Project. The artificial intelligence here will transcribe the speech and recognize the speaker. When one of our representatives comes out and speaks, he will say his name, recognize his voice, and write down his speech afterwards. “I hope we will carry out all our other work with this system.” he said.

On the other hand, it perceives arguments Artificial intelligence is not enough Çevik stated that at this point, the services of human stenographers will continue to be needed. Stenographers transcribe words in real time using a special keyboard.