How is spoken gibberish transcribed?

Question

Such as a court stenographer or someone transcribing an important speech or such.

In: 5

Answer 1

If you wanted to transcribe the gibberish so that someone else could read it out exactly as it originally sounded, you could use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This is what you see in a dictionary written between two slashes (//) after the main word, and it uses symbols (some of which are the same as our letters, some not) to accurately note down every exact sound in the word and how it was pronounced. The IPA can be used to transcribe words in any language across the world.