Technology and Systems for Hansard & official reporting offices
Technology in service of the record.
Beyond Words Legislative Systems is a technology consultancy for Hansard and official reporting offices. We design speech recognition, publication workflows and custom systems around the way your office already works, not the other way around.
Services
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Automated speech recognition
ASR tuned to the realities of the chamber—interjections, procedure, many voices—and fitted to your editorial workflow, not imposed on it.
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Custom applications
Purpose-built tools for logging, research, transcription, annotation and editing, designed with the reporters and editors who will use them every sitting day.
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Publication workflows
From the chamber floor to the published record: structured workflows that meet deadline after deadline and produce beautiful products that communicate care and trust without heroics.
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Systems design
Process, training, design and integration guidance for offices modernizing their systems: independent advice, grounded in reporting practice.
About
More than 55 years inside parliamentary reporting.
We've sat where you sit. Beyond Words Legislative Systems was founded by people who have produced the official report, run the systems behind it, and modernized them, so our advice starts from understanding your methods and processes, not from a product we're selling.
Based in Whitehorse, Yukon · working with parliamentary reporting offices everywhere.
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Deana Lemke Director of Parliamentary Services
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Dan Kerr Director of Technology and Infrastructure -
Allen Kerr Systems and Process Analyst
How we work
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Listen
We start in your office, learning how the official report is produced in your jurisdiction — before any talk of tools.
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Design together
We shape systems around your methods and processes, with your reporters and editors at the table. Sometimes that means new tools but often it's about taking control of what you already have.
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Build & integrate
We deliver in careful steps that fit sitting calendars, integrating with what already works.
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Stay with you
We provide support and refinement long after launch. Sessions change, and systems should keep up.
Contact
Tell us about your office.
A conversation costs nothing. Tell us what's working, what isn't, and where you'd like the record to go.
Thank you.
We've received your message and will reply from contact@beyondwords.ca within a few business days.