Case Study: Full Fact achieves real-time, scalable fact-checking with Speechmatics

Full Fact is delivering independent factchecking tools to the UK and beyond

Full Fact is the UK’s leading independent fact‑checking charity tackling political misinformation, bad journalism and fake news. To speed up and scale their work—especially the goal of offering real‑time fact‑checking to journalists and analysts—Full Fact partnered with Speechmatics to incorporate automatic speech‑to‑text and real‑time transcription into their workflow.

Speechmatics’ transcription technology converts spoken content to text in real time so Full Fact can analyse remarks as they are made and, where a claim has already been checked, deliver the factcheck almost instantaneously. The Speechmatics integration has helped Full Fact provide faster, higher‑capacity factchecks (and accurate captions for accessible videos) with global language coverage, while human factcheckers remain central to verification.

Full Fact

Will Moy

Director