transcribe

present singular third person transcribes · participle present transcribing · participle past transcribed · past transcribed

1. 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.

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   And that's how I ended up on the side of the road, […] scribbling in a tiny red notebook as I tried to transcribe the words coming through my phone's speakers: “black shirts and brown shirts,” “Fauci demonic, ”petrifying,” “your body belongs to the state,” “like China's one-child policy and forced sterilization,” ”geotracking,” “evil x2.”

   2023, Naomi Klein, “Diagonal Lines”, in Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

2. 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.

3. computingTo transfer data from one recording medium to another.
4. entertainmentTo adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
5. biochemistryTo cause DNA to undergo transcription.
6. human sciencesTo represent speech by phonetic symbols.