what does transcription mean?

Question

tonight I up loaded a video and it wanted a description of the video and down below it was a box that said add transcription ( what does transription mean .

Answer 1

Transcription (linguistics), the conversion of spoken words into written language. Also the conversion of handwriting, or a photograph of text into pure text.
Basically they wanted you to add your description of the video you downloaded....

Answer 2

Transcription means written or printed version of something. Transcription (linguistics), the conversion of spoken words into written language. Also the conversion of handwriting, or a photograph of text into pure text.

Answer 3

Transcription becomes extremely important especially when you aim to make data storage easier or want to get a better understanding. Generally, it is seen that the quality of audios or videos are not very good, lots of background noises and disturbances make understanding the recorded speech or communication difficult to understand, but with transcription services you can easily make them easy to understand. Files in written format not only make them more clearly understandable but their storage also becomes easier. Whether the audio you have is from a prospect client or employee or anybody else, you can easily get it transcribed by hiring the services of a professional.

Answer 4

It basically means to add text. Or transcribe the meaning with text.

Answer 5

its when you type out spoken words... like maybe it wanted a line from the movie or something... my friend used to be a medical transcriptionist and she types out the dr.'s dictations.