noun
Meaning 1
A person who transcribes; a transcriptionist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
transcriber
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: T R AE0 N S K R AY1 B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A device or program that transcribes data.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arranger, adapter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: musician
Narrower terms: orchestrator
noun
Meaning 4
someone who makes a written version of spoken material
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer
noun
Meaning 5
someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: phonetician
noun
Meaning 6
someone who rewrites in a different script
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer
noun
Meaning 7
a person who translates written messages from one language to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: translator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: linguist, polyglot
History
Etymology
From transcribe + -er.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُبَيِّض (mubayyiḍ) — person who transcribes
- Old Armenian: դպիր (dpir) — person who transcribes
- Chinese Mandarin: 誊写员 — person who transcribes
- Finnish: siirtokirjoittaja — person who transcribes
- Finnish: puhtaaksikirjoittaja — person who transcribes
- Finnish: transkriptionisti — person who transcribes
- French: transcripteur — person who transcribes
- French: transcriptrice — person who transcribes
- Galician: transcritor — person who transcribes
- Galician: transcritora — person who transcribes
- German: Transkriptor — person who transcribes
- German: Transkriptorin — person who transcribes
- Italian: trascrittore — person who transcribes
- Italian: trascrittrice — person who transcribes
- Latin: librariolus — person who transcribes
- Portuguese: transcritor — person who transcribes
- Portuguese: transcritora — person who transcribes
- Scottish Gaelic: ath-sgrìobhair — person who transcribes
- Spanish: transcriptor — person who transcribes
- Spanish: transcriptora — person who transcribes
- Spanish: trascriptor — person who transcribes
- Spanish: trascriptora — person who transcribes
- Chinese Mandarin: 转录器 — device or program that transcribes data
- Finnish: transkriptori — device or program that transcribes data
- French: transcripteur — device or program that transcribes data
- Galician: transcritor — device or program that transcribes data
- Italian: trascrittore — device or program that transcribes data
- Portuguese: transcritor — device or program that transcribes data
- Spanish: transcriptor — device or program that transcribes data
- Spanish: trascriptor — device or program that transcribes data