Transcription methods

Description

The methods to quickly transcribe spoken language into text, such as stenography.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 3 occupations
  • Optional in 4 occupations
  • Total: 7 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)

Essential for

  • Typist
    Typists operate computers to type and revise documents and compile material to be typed, such as correspondence, reports, statistical tables, forms, and audios. They read instructi…
  • Scopist
    Scopists edit the transcripts created by court reporters to make them readable professional legal documents. They listen or read to the reports given to them to apply punctuation, …
  • Court reporter
    Court reporters type in word processors or any other software each one of the words mentioned in the courtroom. They transcript the hearings that take place in court to…

Optional for

  • Administrative assistant
    Administrative assistants perform administrative and office support for supervisors. They perform various tasks, such as answering telephone calls, receiving and directing visitors…
  • Medical administrative assistant
    Medical administrative assistants work very closely with health professionals. They provide office support such as correspondence, fixing appointments and answering queries of pati…
  • Office clerk
    Office clerks are responsible for performing clerical and administrative duties in an office setting and support of business operations within a department. They assist all the adm…
  • Subtitler
    Subtitlers can work intralingually, within the same language, or interlingually, across languages. Intralingual subtitlers create subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers, whereas in…

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