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Dictaphone
American producer of dictation machines / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Although the name "Dictaphone" is a trademark, it has become genericized as a means to refer to any dictation machine.