Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who transcribes; a copier or copyist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
person whotranscribes ; atranscriptionist . - noun computing A
device orprogram that transcribesdata .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
- noun someone who makes a written version of spoken material
- noun a person who translates written messages from one language to another
- noun someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation
- noun someone who rewrites in a different script
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Examples
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In the former case, the transcriber is the reader of literature.
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In the latter, the transcriber is a chemical mechanism. eric: The fact that DNA sequences can be decoded into proteins shows that DNA contains true symbolic messages, and that gentic codes are true codes.
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In the latter, the transcriber is a chemical mechanism.
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In the former case, the transcriber is the reader of literature.
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I mean, the lawsuit -- and what also came out is that she was a really bad transcriber, which is why she got fired from the show in the first place, so now I feel doubly bad for her.
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If you think about a transcriber for business, it learns over time and it can get smarter.
When Computers Stare Back Ed Sperling 2010
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For the transcriber, the collection is a treasure trove of little discoveries -- the antiquated use of "farinaceous" instead of today's "pasta"; the remarkable preponderance of oyster dishes; the revelation that steaks cost twenty-five cents, not twenty-five dollars.
The New York Public Library: All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections The New York Public Library 2011
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She likes to think of herself as an artist first, with as much right to redefine the landscape suit her purposes as Monet, and not just a transcriber of visual details.
Daniel Grant: Landscape Artist Finds Her Niche Painting Famous Golf Courses Daniel Grant 2011
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If you think about a transcriber for business, it learns over time and it can get smarter.
When Computers Stare Back Ed Sperling 2010
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If you think about a transcriber for business, it learns over time and it can get smarter.
When Computers Stare Back Ed Sperling 2010
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