Background and the challenge
Parliamentary sittings generate hours of debate that must be captured with precision, neutrality, and legal integrity. Whether a chamber calls its record Hansard, the Official Report, or the Debates, traditional production relies heavily on manual transcription, fragmented workflows, and static documents. Common challenges included delays between sittings and published records, heavy reliance on manual or third-party transcription, time-intensive speaker identification and formatting, limited public access to searchable debates, and archives locked in static PDFs or paper records. For small and mid-sized legislatures in particular, these constraints slowed transparency and increased operational costs.
Our approach
Evoluut worked closely with parliamentary stakeholders to understand reporting standards, editorial controls, and public access requirements. The goal was clear: preserve the accuracy and neutrality of the official record, support live and recorded sittings seamlessly, reduce editorial workload without sacrificing control, and improve transparency and citizen access. The result was WhoSaidWhat — a system designed to assist, not replace, parliamentary clerks and editors.
What stakeholders required
Stakeholders required a solution that could:
- Record live sittings without disrupting proceedings.
- Accurately identify speakers and segment debates.
- Produce structured reports in the chamber's official format.
- Provide secure editorial review and approval.
- Offer public-facing search without exposing backend systems.
- Scale across parliaments, committees, courts, and town halls.
Structured Hansard & official reports
WhoSaidWhat delivers a complete parliamentary transcription and reporting platform:
- Live & recorded transcription — automatically converts audio into structured text during or after sittings.
- Speaker identification & mapping — identifies speakers with editable voice profiles and diarisation.
- Structured official reports — generates consistent, publication-ready records in the chamber's format (Hansard or equivalent), in web and PDF.
- Advanced search & filters — search by speaker, topic, date, sitting, or legislation.
- Editorial control dashboard — clerks keep full oversight with intuitive review and correction tools.
- AI-powered public access — citizens explore debates and ask questions in plain language.
Results and impact
Institutions using WhoSaidWhat benefit from:
- Faster turnaround from sitting to publication.
- Reduced transcription and editing overhead.
- Improved accuracy and consistency across the published record.
- Searchable modern parliamentary archives.
- Greater transparency and public engagement.
- A future-ready foundation for digital governance.
Looking ahead
WhoSaidWhat is designed to scale beyond parliamentary chambers — supporting committees, court proceedings, public inquiries, and town halls — while maintaining the rigour required for official records.
The platform is live in Anguilla, in active delivery for the Turks and Caicos Islands, and showcased across the region, with further rollout in progress. Wherever the official record matters — Hansard or otherwise — and the manual workflow is breaking down, WhoSaidWhat brings parliamentary reporting into the modern era.