different between transcription vs phonography

English

Etymology

From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcripti?nem, from tr?nscr?b? (“transcribe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æn?sk??p??n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n
• Hyphenation: tran?scrip?tion

Noun

transcription (countable and uncountable, plural transcriptions)

1. The act or process of transcribing.
   • 2003, James Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium, Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns, SAGE (?ISBN), page 268

     In other words, data are (re)constructed in the process of transcription as a result of multiple decisions that reflect both theoretical and ostensibly pragmatic considerations.

2. Something that has been transcribed, including:
   1. (music) An adaptation of a composition.

      These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.

      • 2013, Gerald Abraham, Slavonic and Romantic Music: Essays and Studies, Faber & Faber (?ISBN)

        In other words, the adantino was written first as an independent piece; it is, moreover, hardly more than an elaborated transcription of the little song, ‘Im Herbste’, written in 1828, with its two exactly similar strophes (each only five bars long) and four-bar piano epilogue.

   2. (broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.
      • 1999, William L. Bird, "Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955, Northwestern University Press (?ISBN)

        From the outset, Selvage had hoped to interest NBC or CBS in broadcasting the American Family Robinson on a sustaining basis. Neither did, and the series ended up in transcription, recorded and circulated to individual stations by the World Broadcasting System.

   3. (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
      • 1977, Ali M. Al Kasimi, Linguistics and Bilingual Dictionaries, Brill Archive (?ISBN), page 37

        While the sounds of the language [English] undergo constant change and growth, the writing system is rarely reviewed or adapted to recent changes in speech. Consequently, there is a patent need for a transcription in linguistic research and dictionaries.

3. (obsolete) A written document.
4. (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
   • 2001, Richard Kowles, Solving Problems in Genetics, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 315

     The process in which the DNA molecule unwinds, separates its two polynucleotide strands, and synthesizes an RNA molecule from one of these DNA strands is called transcription. Genes transcribe chemical messages in the form of RNA molecules. Transcription begins at some site in the DNA duplex and ends at some other point.

Coordinate terms

• musical dictation

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• transliteration

References

• “transcription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s.k?ip.sj??/

Noun

transcription f (plural transcriptions)

1. transcription (all senses)

English

Etymology

From French phonographie

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

phonography (usually uncountable, plural phonographies)

1. The transcription of speech using symbols.
2. A form of shorthand using such symbols.
3. (dated) The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.

Related terms

• phoneography

Translations