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The Cambridge English Dictionary gives two senses of transcription: a written record of words or music, and the process of transcribing something.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“a written record of words or music ... the process of transcribing something”
Transcription: meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, 2026, Meaning of transcription in English.
Open the original- What it measures
- Cambridge marks the first sense as countable and the second as uncountable. The entry also gives an example sentence about a phonetic transcription of recorded conversations.
- What it does not show
- A general dictionary entry. It does not say whether the written record comes from a person or from software.