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Word: transcribe (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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Verb:

  • biochemistry To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
  • computing To transfer data from one recording media to another.
  • dictation To make such a conversion, typically directly from live speech to a computer file, and typically in a courtroom during a criminal or other important trial or proceeding, by a court reporter.
  • linguistics To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
  • dictation To make such a conversion, usually from a physician's recorded speech to a computer file suitable for printing, such as a letter or consultation report.
  • music To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
  • 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.

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