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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]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 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.
- (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 medium 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]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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music: to adapt a composition
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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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References
[edit]- “transcribe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “transcribe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]trānscrībe
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]transcribe
- inflection of transcribir:
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