How to Use transcribe in a Sentence

transcribe

verb
  • The senator's speech was transcribed.
  • He transcribed all of his great-grandfather's letters.
  • That left 4th Floor with about 25 hours worth of interviews to transcribe and sift through.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2020
  • In turn, iOS 15 can even take a photo of a handwritten note and transcribe it for you.
    Yoni Heisler, BGR, 18 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their anonymous responses were transcribed and sent back to me.
    Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • His interview was transcribed but has not been released to the public.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Some have raised concerns that errors could be made as poll workers transcribe votes.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Social media users remixed her words, used them as punch lines and transcribed them into sheet music, to name a few.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The messages sent to Slater on the dating site, some of which were transcribed in the indictment, appeared romantic.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Assign someone to take minutes or use an AI tool to transcribe and compile themes and takeaways.
    Lisa Conn, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Please note, there might be slight discrepancies due to the AI used to transcribe the conversation.
    Katrina Michalak, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The 1940 census records were released a decade ago, but the federal government didn't transcribe and index the names.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2022
  • His hands are weakened by age, so a friend, Stacy Alvey, of the nearby town of Quartz Hill, came to his apartment every few days to transcribe his stories.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Once an interview is completed and transcribed, the transcripts are shared with the subjects.
    William Robin, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The school provided a braille display to transcribe text, a Perkins Brailler for writing and an embossing machine to print.
    Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Instead, the 24 tapes were transcribed by four female typists, including two teenage girls, with each adding their own flair.
    Bekah Waalkes, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Others have built programs that transcribe Twitch streams and YouTube videos, or that work as private voice assistants on their phones.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Merrick advised Chadwick to transcribe the text, so Chadwick returned to the library with a laptop.
    Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
  • For her, the book became a diary to transcribe her emotions while being in the midst of the Justice for Breonna Taylor movement.
    Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 26 July 2023
  • The Microsoft app is meant to help groups take meeting transcriptions, but it can be used as a standalone tool to transcribe audio.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Please note, there might be slight discrepancies because of the AI used to transcribe the conversation.
    Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
  • After all, more than a year into the pandemic, many of us have come to rely on tools that can transcribe voice correctly and rapidly.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Apr. 2021
  • With Live Transcription, your iPhone will transcribe a voicemail as someone is leaving it.
    Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
  • These people dedicate not just hours of their summers to watching the show, but some spend weeks blogging about it and even others transcribe the show for many hours each day, for months on end.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 June 2022
  • Then, the retron would reverse transcribe the RNA sequence, including the gene-specific barcode.
    Wired, 13 Aug. 2022

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