transcribing

Verb

transcribe (third-person singular simple present transcribes, present participle transcribing, simple past and past participle transcribed)

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...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.