transcribe
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From Latin transcribere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”), from trans (“over”) + scribere (“to write”); see scribe.
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transcribe (third-person singular simple present transcribes, present participle transcribing, simple past and past participle transcribed)
- To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to another representation. 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.
- (dictation) 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) To transfer data from one recording media to another.
- (music) To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
- (biochemistry) To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
- (linguistics) To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
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to convert a representation of language into another
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dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text
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computing: to transfer data from one media to another
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biology: to cause to undergo transcription
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linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols
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[edit] References
- transcribe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- transcribe in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Latin
[edit] Verb
trānscrībe
- second-person singular present active imperative of trānscrībō
