transcribe

1 write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"

2 rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated" [syn: transliterate]

3 rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended

4 make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"

5 convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA

English

Pronunciation

Verb

1. To make a full written or typewritten copy of something
2. To transfer data from one recording media to another
3. To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music
4. To cause DNA to undergo transcription
5. To represent speech by phonetic symbols

Translations

• Romanian: transcrie

Transcription may refer to:

• Transcription (linguistics), the conversion of spoken words into written language. Also the conversion of handwriting, or a photograph of text into pure text
• Transcription (genetics), the process of copying DNA to RNA by an enzyme called RNA polymerase (RNAP)
• Transcription (music), either notating an unnotated piece, common in ethnomusicology, or rewriting a piece, either simply recopying (as for clarity), or as an arrangement for another instrument
• Medical transcription, documentation of patients medical records
• Piano transcription, a piece of music played on one or more pianos that is an approximation of a source piece of music
• In computer speech recognition, transcription is the process of having a speech recognition system/software listen to prerecorded voice and then make it insert the recognizable words into a document for later correction (speech recognition transcription)

See also

• Transcript

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