The phrase "attempt to transcribe" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the action of trying to write down or record spoken words or information.
Example: "I will attempt to transcribe the lecture notes from yesterday's class for better understanding."
Alternatives: "try to write down" or "make an effort to record".
With one exception noted below, the TransNote makes no attempt to transcribe your handwriting.
Then I go to the desk and do what all writers do: get stupid, and attempt to transcribe those brilliant radio transmissions they received at one point but now can barely remember.
When post-mitotic neurons try to re-enter the cell cycle, the very attempt to transcribe a subset of cell cycle-related genes that have not been transcribed for years in the lifetime of a mature neuron may accumulate damaged DNA, which could trigger neuronal apoptosis [ 59].
Then, with the aid of a Dictaphone and his friend's meticulous notebooks, he attempts to transcribe Zafar's tragic, tortuous tale.
Another portrays an English memsahib haplessly attempting to transcribe a traditional song; in a pointed metaphor for colonial rule, the music will not obey the iron-clad barlines of western notation, to the Englishwoman's frustration and the audience's delight.
Google Voice attempts to transcribe inbound voice messages (with some pretty hilarious results).
Four transcriptionists attempted to transcribe, but none could consistently isolate participant contributions for the focus group duration.
This is the opposite: It's about letting go and letting something happen through you". She worries that attempts to transcribe such a fluid form will not do the music justice.
The greatest difference from modern orthography, however, is in the various attempts to transcribe the ejective consonants.
When the time came to get my citizenship in the U.S., I joked with my friends that rather than bastardizing my last name by attempting to transcribe it into something more pronounceable, I would do something even crazier and borrow the last name from one of my childhood's favorite comic book heroes.
The aims of some high-throughput genomic projects have focused on the identification of developmental stage, tissue or cell-specific 'transcriptomes', which attempt to describe transcribed regions and their relative abundance [ 1- 3].
