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Also known as digital voice recorder

sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for later playback or to be typed into print

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Encyclopedic overview

Transcribing dictation with a Dictaphone wax cylinder dictation machine, in the early 1920s. Note supply of extra wax cylinders on lower part of stand. A dictation machine is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for playback or to be typed into print. It includes digital voice recorders and tape recorders.

The name "Dictaphone" is a trademark of the American Graphophone Company, but it has also become a common term for all dictation machines, as a genericized trademark.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dictation machine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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