transcribe

  1. Verb.  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.
  2. Verb.  (dictation) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.
  3. Verb.  (computing) To transfer data from one recording media to another.
  4. Verb.  (music) To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
  5. Verb.  (biochemistry) To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
  6. Verb.  (linguistics) To represent speech by phonetic symbols.

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