transcribe

Meanings

Verb

write out from speech, notes, etc.
- "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"
rewrite in a different script
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
make a phonetic transcription of
- "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"
convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
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.
To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
To represent speech by phonetic symbols.

Origin / Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).

Synonyms

Scrabble Score: 14

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Words With Friends Score: 17

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