copy vs transcribe

copy

verb
  • To give or transmit a copy to (a person). 

  • To produce an object identical to a given object. 

  • To place a copy of an object in memory for later use. 

  • To imitate. 

  • To receive a transmission successfully. 

noun
  • The text of newspaper articles. 

  • Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard. 

  • The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services. 

  • The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original. 

  • A school work pad. 

  • A printed edition of a book or magazine. 

  • The result of gene or chromosomal duplication. 

  • An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality. 

  • The text that is to be typeset. 

  • A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy. 

transcribe

verb
  • To transfer data from one recording medium to another. 

  • To represent speech by phonetic symbols. 

  • 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. 

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

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