Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A phonetic transcription is a linguistic representation of an utterance using phonetic symbols, like the International Phonetic Alphabet. There are two general types of phonetic transcription: broad transcription and narrow transcription. Broad transcription is usually just a transcriptions of the phonemes of an utterance, whereas narrow transcription encodes information about the phonetic variations of the specific allophones in the utterance. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.