dictaphone

A dictaphone and a white-board, The dictaphone allows me to record ideas, snippets, reminders and such, even pratice presentations.

There were even foot-pedal-controlled cassette players, so typists could type with their hands and control the dictaphone tape with their feet!

The dictaphone became smaller, pocekt sized, so you could take it anywhere, decades ago.

He then dictates his replies into a dictaphone and has her type them out.

Why not double account, why not have a separate (software?) dictaphone and write notes?

However, more recently, I've started recording meetings with a dictaphone and then I write them up after.

Basic setup (no accounts right now) that I use to transcribe plus summarize my audio notes from my dictaphone.

It sounds like it was recorded on a dictaphone in someone's pocket.

Now everyone has a dictaphone in their pocket, now you can synthesise anyone's voice saying anything, make images of them appearing to do anything.

And I could record my own perceptions in the moment, either by writing it down or speaking into a dictaphone.

The laser-bouncer is great for eavesdropping on people who take some effort to hide their communication - if they don't, hiding a wireless microphone or a high-capacity dictaphone is orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper.

We gave my son a dictaphone to record his own stuff.

It's clear that there's value in disambiguation; did they say "biomemetic" or "liquid metal" days ago on a dictaphone in a loud environment?

> The name "Dictaphone" was trademarked in 1907 by the Columbia Graphophone Company, which soon became the leading manufacturer of such devices.

Hence the phrase, "Can I use your dictaphone?"

It's like this guy kept picking up his dictaphone, hitting "record," and barking, "Hey Bob, I am in receipt of your memo of the 25th, regarding the potential killing of Fred.

Edison, Bell, IBM, Morse, US Steel, Wright, Sikorsky, Westinghouse, Marconi, Dictaphone, Goodyear...there's a lot, any many of the companies are still household names even if they don't exist anymore.