transkribiert

Transkribiert is the past participle of the German verb transkribieren, which means to transcribe. Transkribieren refers to creating a written or typed representation of spoken language, music, or other signals. As a finite verb, transkribieren takes the auxiliary haben in perfect tenses (Ich habe das Interview transkribiert). The form transkribiert also functions as a participial adjective, for example in transkribiertes Dokument or transkribierter Text.

In practice, transcription appears in several fields. In linguistics and language technology, transcription covers phonetic notation (often with the International Phonetic Alphabet) or phonemic representations. In journalism and research, interviews and meetings are converted into transcripts for analysis and archiving. In music, a piece may be transkribiert for another instrument or for a different arrangement. The term is also common in administrative and archival contexts, where spoken material is converted into readable text.

Etymology and related terms: transkribieren derives from Latin transcribere (trans- “across” + scribere “to write”). The related noun is Transkript or Transkription, referring to the written record itself, while the past participle transkribiert describes something that has already undergone transcription. In biology, the related concept Transkription denotes the process of copying DNA into RNA, with German usage often employing phrases like das Gen wird transkribiert.