Transcription
Teresa W. quoted “You know you are a transcriber when you visualize the typing in your mind when you are listening to conversations”.
Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of source audio to language in written form. The source can either be utterances (speech or sign language) or pre-existing text in another writing system, although some linguists consider only the former to be transcription. Simply saying it means listening to audio and typing in Text.
Transcription may happen in the same language unlike translation which converts one language to another.
Normally the source file is either audio or video. The charges are therefore on a per minute basis and not on per word (as in translation).
In the academic discipline of linguistics, transcription is an essential part of the methodologies of,(among others) phonetics, conversation analysis, dialectology and sociolinguistics. It also plays an important role for several sub-fields of speech technology. Common examples for transcriptions outside academia are the proceedings of a court hearing such as a criminal trial (by a court reporter) or a physician's recorded voice notes (medical transcription).
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