Transcription
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Transcription may refer to:
- Transcription (service)Transcription (service)A transcription service is a business which converts speech into a written or electronic text document. Transcription services are often provided for business, legal, or medical purposes. The most common type of transcription is from a spoken-language source into text such as a computer file...
, a business which converts speech into a written or electronic text document - Transcription (software)Transcription (software)Transcription software is software which assists in the conversion of human speech into a text transcript. The primary meaning of the term "transcription software" has changed over time, with the introduction of new technologies such as natural language speech recognition. References also depend on...
, software which helps (manually or automatically) convert speech into text transcript - Transcription (genetics)Transcription (genetics)Transcription is the process of creating a complementary RNA copy of a sequence of DNA. Both RNA and DNA are nucleic acids, which use base pairs of nucleotides as a complementary language that can be converted back and forth from DNA to RNA by the action of the correct enzymes...
, the copying of DNA into messenger RNA in gene expression - Transcription (linguistics)Transcription (linguistics)Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of language in written form. The source can either be utterances or preexisting text in another writing system, although some linguists only consider the former as transcription.Transcription should not be confused with...
, the representation of speech in written form- Phonetic transcriptionPhonetic transcriptionPhonetic transcription is the visual representation of speech sounds . The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, e.g., the International Phonetic Alphabet....
, the representation specifically of speech sounds
- Phonetic transcription
- Transcription (music)Transcription (music)In music, transcription can mean notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated, as, for example, an improvised jazz solo. Further examples include ethnomusicological notation of oral traditions of folk music, such as Béla Bartók's and Ralph Vaughan Williams' collections of the national...
, notating an unnotated piece, or copying / rewriting a piece for clarity or as an arrangement for another instrument - Piano transcriptionPiano transcriptionA piano transcription is a piece of music played on one or more pianos that is an approximation of a source piece of music. The source may be music for a solo instrument or voice, an ensemble of instruments and/or voices, or even a piece originally for solo or ensemble piano...
, a piece of music played on one or more pianos that is an approximation of a source piece of music - Medical transcriptionMedical transcriptionMedical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals, into text format.-History:...
, documentation of patient medical records - Transcription disc, a sound recording made during broadcasting for internal use by the broadcasting organization