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Transcription vs Dictation - What's the difference?

transcription | dictation |

As nouns the difference between transcription and dictation

is that transcription is the act or process of transcribing while dictation is dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.

transcription

English

(wikipedia transcription)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of transcribing.
  • Something that has been transcribed, including:
  • # (music) An adaptation of a composition.
  • These interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.
  • # A recorded radio or television programme.
  • # (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
  • (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

    • Related terms

    * transcriptionist

    dictation

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
    • Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
  • (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
    • 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
  • (countable) The act of ordering or commanding
    • 1852:' Lysander Spooner, ''An Essay on the Trial by Jury'' - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any ' dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
  • (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner
    • His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation .