Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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transcribe

/trænˈskɹaɪb/ verb

Forms transcribes transcribing transcribed

  1. verb To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.
  2. verb (dictation) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text. “The doctor made several recordings today which she will transcribe into medical reports tomorrow.”
  3. verb (computing) To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
  4. verb (music) To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
  5. verb (biochemistry) To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
  6. verb (linguistics) To represent speech by phonetic symbols.

Synonyms

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

Etymology [L. transcribere, transcriptum; trans across, over + scribere to write. See Scribe.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “transcribe”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details