rewrite vs transcribe

rewrite

verb
  • To write again, differently; to modify (a piece of writing or music, etc.). 

  • To write out again (without changes). 

noun
  • Something that has been written again. 

  • The act of writing again or anew. 

transcribe

verb
  • To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music. 

  • To represent speech by phonetic symbols. 

  • To transfer data from one recording medium to another. 

  • To cause DNA to undergo transcription. 

  • 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. 

  • To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text. 

How often have the words rewrite and transcribe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )