Origin: Latin prefix trans-
Transcribe has 6 different meanings across 1 category:
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
make a phonetic transcription of
"The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"
convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
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.