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The Dictabelt system was popular, and by 1952, made up 90% of Dictaphone's sales. [5] Dictabelts were more convenient and provide better audio quality than the reusable wax cylinders they replaced. The belts can be folded for storage and will fit into an ordinary letter-size envelope. However, the plastic loses flexibility as it ages.
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.
The user turns the cylinder by pumping the treadle, and speaks into the mouthpiece. The recording is played back by replacing the mouthpiece with the 'stethoscope' type earphones lying on the desk. Extra wax cylinders are seen on the desk. Alterations to image: removed caption, which read: "The Gramophone receiving a dictation". Date: 1897: Source
In June 2005, Dictaphone Corporation announced the sale of its Communications Recording Systems to NICE Systems for $38.5 million. [11] This was considered a great bargain in the industry [12] [failed verification] and came after NICE was ordered to pay Dictaphone $10 million in settlements related to a patent-infringement suit in late 2003 ...
[1] [2] [3] Similar competing recording technologies are the Gray Audograph and Dictaphone DictaBelt. The machine can record 15 minutes of dictation on each side of a thin (.01-inch) [3] flexible 6-inch vinyl disc spinning at a rate of 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 RPM, at a density of 200 grooves per inch. [1] The discs originally cost about 10 cents each.
This was because many executives (included IBM's own) were reluctant to use dictation machines. IBM was the market leader by 1965, outselling their biggest competitor Dictaphone and driving Ediphone (a division of Edison) out of the market. [2] Unit sales peaked in 1969 at 98,000 units, which was roughly a 33% market share. [3]
Gray Audograph handset Gray Audograph. The Gray Audograph was a dictation machine format introduced in 1945. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs. [1] [2] ...
The Mini-Cassette, often written minicassette, is a magnetic tape audio cassette format introduced by Philips in 1967.. It is used primarily in dictation machines and was also employed as a data storage for the Philips P2000 home computer.