Dictionary

transcribe en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /trænˈskɹaɪb/

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

hypertranscribe · transcribability · cotranscribe · mistranscribe · retrotranscribe · transcriber · pretranscribe · retranscribe · transcribable

Relateds

translate · scribe · transliterate · transcribble · transcription

Translations (71)

vi chuyển biên (music: to adapt a composition) · sv transkribera (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · es desgrabar (to convert a representation of language into another) · es transcribir (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · cmn 謄寫 /誊写 (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · vi phiên âm (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · th ถ่ายเสียง (to convert a representation of language into another) · gl transcribir (to convert a representation of language into another) · bg транскрибирам (biology: to cause to undergo transcription) · cmn 速錄 /速录 (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · ru транскриби́ровать (to convert a representation of language into another) · cmn 轉寫 /转写 (to convert a representation of language into another) · bg транскрибирам (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · fi sovittaa (music: to adapt a composition) · fi siirtokirjoittaa (to convert a representation of language into another) · hy արտագրել (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · bg транскрибирам (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · fi transkriboida (to convert a representation of language into another) · cmn 音譯 /音译 (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · th ถอดเสียง (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · it trascrivere (to convert a representation of language into another) · mi tauwhaituhi (to convert a representation of language into another) · th ถอดเสียง (to convert a representation of language into another) · he תִּעֲתֵק (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · be транскрыбі́раваць (to convert a representation of language into another) · ast trescribir (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · mnc ᠰᠠᡵᡴᡳᠶᠠᠮᠪᡳ (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · ro transcrie (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · cmn 扒譜 /扒谱 (music: to adapt a composition) · ast trescribir (to convert a representation of language into another) · th ถ่ายเสียง (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · de transkribieren (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · da transskribere (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · hy տառադարձել (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · pl transkrybować (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · fi transkriboida (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · fi transkriboida (computing: to transfer data from one media to another) · uk транскрибува́ти (to convert a representation of language into another) · cmn 聽寫 /听写 (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · ru транскриби́ровать (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · ca transcriure (to convert a representation of language into another) · es transcribir (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · bg транскрибирам (music: to adapt a composition) · fi kirjoittaa puhtaaksi (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · pt transcrever (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · ja 転写する (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · nl transcriberen (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · vi chép lại (to convert a representation of language into another) · fr transcrire (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · eo transskribi (to convert a representation of language into another) · es transcribir (to convert a representation of language into another) · cmn 轉錄 /转录 (biology: to cause to undergo transcription) · fi transkriboida (biology: to cause to undergo transcription) · ja 転写する (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · vi phiên mã (biology: to cause to undergo transcription) · es transcribir (music: to adapt a composition) · fi siirtää (computing: to transfer data from one media to another) · th ทับศัพท์ (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · ast trescribir (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · bg транскрибирам (computing: to transfer data from one media to another) · vi sao mã (biology: to cause to undergo transcription) · th ทับศัพท์ (to convert a representation of language into another) · fi tarkekirjoittaa (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · pl przepisywać (linguistics: to represent speech by phonetic symbols) · fi litteroida (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · yue 謄寫 /誊写 (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · bg транскрибирам (to convert a representation of language into another) · cmn 聽記 /听记 (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · pt transcrever (to convert a representation of language into another) · pt transcrever (dictation: to make such conversion from speech to text) · sv transkribera (music: to adapt a composition)