teletype vs transcribe

teletype

verb
  • To use a teletype. 

noun
  • An early input/output device for mainframe computers. 

  • The telegrams produced by this device. 

  • A telegraph that automatically prints transmited messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance. 

transcribe

verb
  • To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text. 

  • To represent speech by phonetic symbols. 

  • To transfer data from one recording medium to another. 

  • To cause DNA to undergo transcription. 

  • To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text. 

  • To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music. 

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