Fact · Dictation
Dictaphone Corporation's 1997 annual report says the traditional desktop and portable dictation products used analog magnetic tape to store and replay voice.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Desktop and portable dictation products, the traditional products of this industry, typically use analog magnetic tape recording methods to store and replay voice.”
Dictaphone Corp annual report on Form 10-K (fiscal 1996), Dictaphone Corporation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), 1997, Item 1, Business (description of dictation products).
Open the original- What it measures
- A dictaphone in the strict sense stored the voice on a medium, first wax and later tape, so that someone else could play it back and transcribe it.
- What it does not show
- The filing describes the industry's traditional products in general. It is a 1997 description; later digital systems are described in the same filing as a newer development.