The official definition of transcription is: "A written or printed version of something; a transcript." When smartphones added transcription to their services, it was truly a game changer. Voicemail no longer had to be listened to, they could now be read. Dictation no longer required a person listening to each word and then translating the spoken words into text. Now all this was done automatically. So this is what is very good about transcription, it saves time, it saves en