Transcribe

Quick meaning: Transcribe is a verb meaning (dictation) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.

Meaning

(dictation) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.

More Meanings

1. (computing) To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
2. (music) To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
3. (biochemistry) To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
4. (linguistics) To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
5. To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.

Example Sentences

The doctor made several recordings today which she will transcribe into medical reports tomorrow.

Word Forms

• transcribes
• transcribing
• transcribed

Synonyms for transcribe

Depending on context, synonyms include adapt, transliterate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transliterate, adapt, transcript, translate, record, report.

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