Meaning of transcriptese | Babel Free

Definitions

A direct transcription of someone's speech, including speech disfluencies

uncountable

Examples

“When we speak out loud, we use language differently from the way we do when we write, and the written form of spoken speech—the “transcriptese” that types out the grunts, verbal gestures, and conversational hedges of ordinary talk—can make people sound more foolish and more hesitant than they are.”

CEFR level