1. A transcription device ( 1 ) for transcribing a spoken text (GT) into a recognized text (ET) and for editing incorrectly recognized parts of the recognized text (ET), wherein link information (LI) for each part of the spoken text (GT) flags the associated recognized text (ET), having speech recognition means ( 2 ) for transcribing the received spoken text (GT) into the recognized text (ET) and for producing the link information (LI), and having memory means ( 8 ) for storing the spoken text (GT), the recognized text (ET) and the link information (LI), and having marking means ( 12, 15, 17 ) for automatically determining marking information (CMI, PMI, HMI, GMI, DMI, RMI, WMI) and for storing the marking information determined (CMI, PMI, HMI, GMI, DMI, RMI, WMI) in the memory means ( 8 ), which marking information (CMI, PMI, HMI, GMI, DMI, RMI, WMI) flags parts of the recognized text (ET) and/or of the spoken text (GT) that have a particular characteristic common to all the marked parts of the text, wherein the marking means ( 12, 15, 17 ) have input means ( 15, 17 ) for the manual entry of the marking information (CMI, PMI, HMI, GMI, DMI, RMI, WMI) to allow further parts of the recognized or spoken text that also have this common characteristic to be marked with this marking information (CMI, PMI, HMI, GMI, DMI, RMI, WMI), and having processing means ( 13 ) for unified processing of marked parts of the text.