- transcription
- The process of systematically writing the sounds of some passage of spoken language, generally with the use of a technical phonetic alphabet (usually Latin-based) or other systematic transcriptional orthography. Transcription also sometimes refers to the conversion of written text into a transcribed (usually Latin- based) form, based on the sound of the text as if it had been spoken. <NONE>
Unlike transliterations, which are generally designed to be round-trip convertible, transcriptions of written material are almost never round-trip convertible to their original form.