transcribed

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past simple and past participle of

to record something written, spoken, or played by writing it down:

Recordings of conversations are transcribed and entered into the database.

to change a piece of writing or music into another form, for example into a different writing system or into music for different instruments:

Transcribing the Ethiopian text into the English alphabet was their first task.

The quintet had been transcribed for clarinet and piano.