Broadcasting of Proceedings in the Senedd

Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:12 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Elin Jones Elin Jones Plaid Cymru 3:12, 14 November 2018

Thank you for the supplementary. You've raised two points there, one which is new to me—not raised with me before—about the quality of the audio ordinarily on Senedd.tv, and if that's not audible then it's not good enough. So, I'll make sure that we review that and ensure that it can be heard, certainly.

Then on the issue more generally of subtitling, subtitling retrospectively and live subtitling, we are investing in the infrastructure that we have and in the video capacity that we have to make subtitling more straightforward in the future. Live subtitling, though, especially live subtitling of two languages spoken in this Assembly, is quite challenging in terms of the technology, but also in terms of its accuracy of what we say, and it needs to be accurate in order to be respectful of what's said by Members here. So this is obviously something that would be of benefit to many people in our society, and generally a good thing to do, so we are looking both to invest and then to develop and use the technology of subtitling so that more people are able to access with ease what we say and do and decide in this place.