How to Use transcribe in a Sentence

transcribe

verb
  • The senator's speech was transcribed.
  • He transcribed all of his great-grandfather's letters.
  • What was said was not recorded or transcribed.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The husband-and-wife team were the first to record him and transcribe his songs.
    — Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Hundreds of rolls were transcribed that way—and destroyed in the process.
    — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • 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
  • So many of these songs are just transcribed from my conversations with friends.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • And this is how -- this is the normal way that these transcribe interviews are done.
    — Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • Some have raised concerns that errors could be made as poll workers transcribe votes.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Their anonymous responses were transcribed and sent back to me.
    — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • There’s no toggle to opt out of recordings being transcribed.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 12 July 2019
  • Hertz was with her through high school, transcribing texts and what the teacher wrote on the whiteboard.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 27 June 2025
  • The iPhone lets users record and transcribe calls with just the tap of a button, as do other apps.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The New York Times transcribed her words and printed them in full.
    — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Some of the features in the works are tools that might transcribe voice memos and retouch photos.
    — Emily Price, PCMAG, 26 May 2024
  • His interview was transcribed but has not been released to the public.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The world turns away Just to transcribe these quotations is awful.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • Isaac Newton transcribed a recipe for making it with a philosopher’s stone.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
  • All calls are recorded (that was true before the AI was launched) and transcribed.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • His sisters and daughter, Hannah, helped transcribe pages of text.
    — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Your spoken reply gets sent to the person who sent it as a short voice message that is also transcribed.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Both depositions will be transcribed and filmed.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The reverend had to transcribe his oral translation—and teach his audience how to read the text.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 14 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
  • Both depositions will be transcribed and filmed.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Executions are not recorded, so statements are transcribed at the time by hand.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 20 May 2026
  • As the iPhone begins to transcribe the voice message, that’s when the problem occurs.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • That left 4th Floor with about 25 hours worth of interviews to transcribe and sift through.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2020

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