Meaning & use
Transcriber
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A person or device that converts spoken words, or one form of text, into written or printed form.
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The court hired a professional transcriber to record every word of the trial.
The app works as an automatic transcriber for podcast interviews.
A note on using this word
Can refer to a human professional or, increasingly, to speech-recognition software that performs the same task automatically.
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