transcribe
verb/trænˈskɹaɪb/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).
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.
To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.
- The doctor made several recordings today which she will transcribe into medical reports tomorrow.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
- Derived terms
- cotranscribe, hypertranscribe, mistranscribe, pretranscribe, retranscribe, retrotranscribe, transcribability, transcribable, transcriber
- Related terms
- scribe, transcribble, transcription, translate, transliterate