How to Use transcribe in a Sentence

transcribe

verb
Definition of transcribenext
Synonyms for transcribenext
  • The senator's speech was transcribed.
  • He transcribed all of his great-grandfather's letters.
  • The husband-and-wife team were the first to record him and transcribe his songs.
    — Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The New York Times transcribed her words and printed them in full.
    — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Hundreds of rolls were transcribed that way—and destroyed in the process.
    — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • That left 4th Floor with about 25 hours worth of interviews to transcribe and sift through.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2020
  • But no one is forced to transcribe their thoughts by hand and drop those letters in a mailbox.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • The good folks at the Daily Beast are doing the Lord’s work and have transcribed long missives that have no point and no end.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 22 Sep. 2017
  • In turn, iOS 15 can even take a photo of a handwritten note and transcribe it for you.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Send tips, comments, and a replicant who transcribes to [email protected].
    — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 27 Sep. 2017
  • In texts transcribed so far, a full one-third of the words contained one or more typos, places where the OCR guessed the wrong letter.
    — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the features in the works are tools that might transcribe voice memos and retouch photos.
    — Emily Price, PCMAG, 26 May 2024
  • And this is how -- this is the normal way that these transcribe interviews are done.
    — Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • Chances are there will be things worth knowing in those old scrolls and books that Jim Broadbent gives to Sam to transcribe.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 31 July 2017
  • The ability to write in my head and then transcribe the words, verbatim, was a boon and not a burden.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • Calls will not be answered, but voice messages will be transcribed to text for the staff for a future call back.
    — al, 2 Apr. 2020
  • There are still records to read, transcribe and document.
    — USA Today, 26 Feb. 2020
  • It must be transcribed by enzymes, resulting in a copy of the sequence known as RNA.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The main body of the story is the deputy’s account of the night in question, tape-recorded so that his secretary can transcribe it.
    — Justin Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The world turns away Just to transcribe these quotations is awful.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • The reverend had to transcribe his oral translation—and teach his audience how to read the text.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
  • A Spanish translator transcribed the videos for the Free Press today.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2017
  • His wife Louise Davis, transcribed the journal on a computer.
    — Matt Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • Crane borrowed the notebooks from Fisher and brought transcribed copies back to New York City a few weeks later.
    — Dustin Illingworth, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Isaac Newton transcribed a recipe for making it with a philosopher’s stone.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Once that work is done, Lourie and his team will transcribe the handwritten content and post it online along with the letters.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Their anonymous responses were transcribed and sent back to me.
    — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • What follows are excerpts from the conversation as transcribed and shared by the White House.
    — Alana Abramson, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2017
  • Both versions of Harris’ response are transcribed below.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The Notes and Phone apps will support recording, transcribing, and summarizing audio.
    — PCMAG, 23 Sep. 2024

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