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

Van Dusen himself, likely as not, "takes his desk home" to catch up on his correspondence after dinner, with the help of a dictating machine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus we reported that Pope Pius XI, a scholar, took special delight in mechanical contraptions and gladly accepted the gift of a dictating machine from Thomas Edison.

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