How to Use transcription in a Sentence

transcription

noun
  • Transcription of the tapes took weeks.
  • This is not an audio transcription of what is said in the video.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Text transcriptions are also shown on screen.
    — PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Text transcriptions are also shown on screen.
    — PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The nurse who catches the wrong transcription.
    — Maria Noel Fernandez, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Grasshopper can email transcriptions to you rather than forcing you to check the app, too.
    — John Brandon, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • The transcription of what Siri caught and aims to text will appear at the top in a small box.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 22 June 2020
  • Dozens of sites offer transcription work.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Google has added a new voice-memo app with on-the-fly transcription, which worked well in a demonstration.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
  • What is called history comes to us as a transcription of the evanescent.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • First, a baby is born with a random transcription error in her genes.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • And lyrics that read like the transcription of a White Stripes band meeting.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2022
  • My knee was bouncing, fingers at the ready at my keyboard for transcription.
    — David Zweig, Wired, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Too many firms treat transcription as an afterthought.
    — Beth Worthy, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • At the very least, the political satire needs to feel like more than transcription of the week’s events.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2019
  • However, the app is a bit clunky, and its transcription tool isn't as good as the other picks on this list.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The transcription process took so long, requiring so many small rewindings, that my hands and back would cramp.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The transcriptions include tags for each speaker on the audio.
    — Jaures Yip,kif Leswing,annie Palmer,jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The full line-by-line transcription, now about 70 percent complete, is here.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The sound is awful, and there are a few gaps in the performance due to problems with the transcription discs.
    — Richard S. Ginell, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2017
  • While the feature is holding for you, a live transcription of anything that’s said will appear on your phone.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 28 May 2021
  • To produce the tones, the needle followed the transcription and pushed audio back through.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
  • There was a transcription of ‘Casey Jones’ in one of the magazines.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And then everything had to be double- and triple-checked to make sure my transcriptions were accurate.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • The cylinder would then be handed off to a secretary for transcription.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Then on the third day, the embryonic genome gets turned on, at which point there’s a major wave of transcription.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2018
  • The tests are all perfect, like the letter was perfect, the transcription was perfect, right?
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 27 Mar. 2020
  • That trend would lead to tens of thousands of faulty transcriptions over millions of recordings, researchers said.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
  • There's also the Google Recorder app, which is a voice recorder that also does transcription.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2020
  • If there are errors in the transcription, people can double check the audio and correct it.
    — Shannon Liao, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020

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