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Transcribe! 是一款辅助扒谱的工具软件，面向需要从音频录音里提取乐曲、记谱或演奏练习的音乐人。它不会自动帮你完成扒谱，本质是一款专为扒谱优化的专业音频播放器，拥有普通音乐播放器不具备的大量扒谱专属功能。
很多人也用它来做跟奏练习：可以实时改变音频音高与速度，支持保存、调取多个命名循环片段。你可以在任意调式下练习，自由加快或放慢播放速度。软件帮助文档的「各类主题」板块中，还有跟奏练习相关的使用建议。
它同样适用于语音转写工作。软件支持脚踏板操控，慢速播放时音质表现优秀，很适合语音听写，相关提示同样在帮助文档「各类主题」内。
普通音乐播放器（CD 机、iPod，或是 Windows Media Player、iTunes 这类软件）设计初衷是完整播放曲目，用来扒谱会非常不便。你只需把音频文件存入电脑硬盘，就可以使用 Transcribe!。 核心功能：
- 变速不变调
- 和弦分析，显示音频内包含的音符
- 添加标记点与文字备注，快速在音频内跳转
- 屏幕虚拟钢琴键盘，点击可播放参考音
重要说明：Transcribe! 无法直接解析音频并输出乐谱或 MIDI 文件，这项技术目前仍属于尚未完全解决的研究难题。频谱分析功能对分辨难以听清的和弦很有帮助，但仍需要你依靠耳朵与判断力，区分频谱峰值里哪些是真实演奏音符、哪些是泛音、哪些只是噪声与鼓这类宽频乐器产生的信号。 如果你完全没有靠耳朵扒简单乐曲的基础，这款软件很难帮到你（可参考文档《如何扒谱》）；但如果你本身就会听音频扒曲子，Transcribe! 能大幅简化工作、提升效率。
The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn’t do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. It has many transcription-specific features not found on conventional music players.
It is also used by many people for play-along practice. It can change pitch and speed instantly, and you can store and recall any number of named loops. So you can practice in all keys, and you can speed up as well as slow down. There is some advice about play-along practice in Transcribe!’s help, under the heading “Various Topics”.
And it is also used for speech transcription. With its support for foot pedals and its superior slowed-down sound quality, it is an excellent choice for this purpose. There is some advice about speech transcription in Transcribe!’s help, under the heading “Various Topics”.
Conventional music players (whether hardware such as a CD player or an iPod, or software such as Windows Media Player or iTunes) are really designed for people who want to listen to whole tracks. They are very inconvenient for transcribing music as they are not designed for this purpose. If you copy the recording to your computer’s hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, to analyse chords and show you what notes are present, and the capability of adding markers and textual annotations so you can easily navigate around the track. Transcribe! also has a piano keyboard displayed on screen which you can click to play reference notes.
It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job, processing an audio file and outputting musical notation or midi – this would be nice, but is a currently unsolved research problem. The spectrum analysis feature is very useful for working out those hard-to-hear chords, but you must still use your ear and brain to decide which of the peaks in the spectrum are notes being played, which are merely harmonics, and which are just the result of noise and broad-spectrum instruments such as drums. If you have never worked out even a simple piece of music by ear then Transcribe! will probably not help you (see How to Transcribe), but if you do sometimes work out recorded music by ear then Transcribe! can make the job a lot quicker and easier.
