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Word: transcribe
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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.
Source: Wiktionary
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