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transcribe

verb
/trænˈskɹaɪb/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).

  1. learned borrowing from trānscrībō — “to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”

Definitions

  1. To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc.,…

    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.

  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. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original

      To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.

    2. To cause DNA to undergo transcription.

    3. To represent speech by phonetic symbols.

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transcriber

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at transcribe. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at transcribe. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at transcribe

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA