document vs transcribe

document

verb
  • To record in documents. 

  • To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information. 

noun
  • An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects. 

  • An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support. 

  • Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing. 

  • A file that contains text. 

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 document and transcribe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )