dictating machine

American  

[dik-tey-ting] / ˈdɪk teɪ tɪŋ /

noun

1. a machine for recording dictation, as on cassettes or disks, for subsequent transcription.

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Etymology

Origin of dictating machine

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Unfortunately the disks he tried to adapt for his fledgling computer, paper coated with magnetic oxide used in an early dictating machine, proved too floppy.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2016

Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working.

From Time Magazine Archive

One such arrangement might allow a company executive to dictate a memo into a smart dictating machine that will then distribute it, electronically, to offices around the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1891 he experimented with an Edison dictating machine but concluded that "you can't write literature with it."

From Time Magazine Archive

The brain may also be likened to the cylinder or disk used in a dictating machine and in phonographs, and a thought likened to the needle making the original record.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Scott, Walter Dill