Transcribing

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The process of turning audio or spoken dialogue into a written format involves taking verbal communication and creating a textual record of it
2. Converting sounds, dialogues, or recorded material into written words entails transmuting auditory information into a readable form
3. The act of converting voice or speech into a written document or text

Etymology: "Transcribing" is the present participle of "transcribe," which is a learned borrowing from Latin "transcribere," meaning "to write again in another place" or "to copy." The Latin verb combines "trans," meaning "across" or "over," with "scribere," "to write," so the core idea is writing something out again somewhere else. The Latin sense of copying is the one that carried into English. A transcription was originally a copy of a document, and the verb meant reproducing writing by hand. The modern sense of turning speech or sound into text is a later extension of that copying idea, shifting the source from a written page to a spoken or recorded one.

Synonyms: writing, recording