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Dictaphone was an American company founded by Alexander Graham Bell that produced dictation machines. It is now a division of Nuance Communications , based in Burlington, Massachusetts . Although the name "Dictaphone" is a trademark , it has become genericized as a means to refer to any dictation machine .
The origin of IBM's dictation machines began with a tube tester company called Radiotechnic Laboratories, founded in the late 1920s in Evanston, IL. Charles Peirce bought the company in 1938 and in an attempt to find new revenue sources, they began making wire recorders for the US Army in 1940. Peirce subsequently changed the company name to ...
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 recorder.
In 1983, Harris acquired Lanier Business Products, Inc., a dictation, word processing and computer company based in Atlanta, Georgia. By the start of the 1990s, Lanier accounted for about 1/3 of Harris Corporation's revenues. In 1998, Harris spun Lanier back off as a publicly-traded company, but also saddled it with over $700 million in debt. [13]
Nuance merged with its competitor in the commercial large-scale speech application business, ScanSoft, in October 2005. ScanSoft was a Xerox spin-off that was bought in 1999 by Visioneer , a hardware and software scanner company, which adopted ScanSoft as the new merged company name.
The company was founded 1953 in Chicago by John Snow and audio engineer Ed Miller. [1] [2] [3] Since 1980, the company is under Inkel Corporation of South Korea. [3]
Uniden was established on February 7, 1966, by its founder Hidero Fujimoto as "Uni Electronics Corp". Uniden became a well-known brand in the 1970s by manufacturing and marketing millions of citizens band radios (CB), under the Uniden brand as well as other companies such as Midland and Realistic, which rebranded the equipment under their own labels.
Having been intended for recording dictation and other speech for later transcription, it is a write-once-read-many medium consisting of a 5-mil (0.13 mm) thick transparent vinyl (according to a 1960s Dictaphone user manual: cellulose acetate butyrate) plastic belt 3.5 inches (89 mm) wide and 12 inches (300 mm) around. [2]