transcription

1 something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation [syn: written text]

2 (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA

3 a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)

4 the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music [syn: arrangement, arranging]

5 the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth" [syn: recording]

English

Pronunciation

Noun

1. the act or process of transcribing
2. something that has been transcribed, especially . .
   1. an adaptation of a composition
   2. a recorded radio or television programme
   3. a representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols
3. The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
4. a job as medical transcriptionist or court reporter
5. a computer program converting voice to action as in robotics or to text as in AI artificial intelligence

Related terms

• transcript
• transcribe

Translations

Transcription may refer to:

• Transcription (linguistics), the conversion of spoken words into written language. Also the conversion of handwriting, or a photograph of text into pure text
• Transcription (genetics), the process of copying DNA to RNA by an enzyme called RNA polymerase (RNAP)
• Transcription (music), either notating an unnotated piece, common in ethnomusicology, or rewriting a piece, either simply recopying (as for clarity), or as an arrangement for another instrument
• Medical transcription, documentation of patients medical records
• Piano transcription, a piece of music played on one or more pianos that is an approximation of a source piece of music
• In computer speech recognition, transcription is the process of having a speech recognition system/software listen to prerecorded voice and then make it insert the recognizable words into a document for later correction (speech recognition transcription)

See also

• Transcript

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