construe vs transcribe

construe

verb
  • To interpret or explain the meaning of something. 

  • To translate. 

  • To admit of grammatical analysis. 

  • To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse. 

  • To infer. 

noun
  • An interpretation. 

  • A translation. 

transcribe

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. 

  • To represent speech by phonetic symbols. 

  • To transfer data from one recording medium to another. 

  • To cause DNA to undergo transcription. 

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

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

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