A dictation machine is a device that allows someone to speak into it and records their words. It helps them take notes or transcribe their spoken words into written form. Full definition
At least we know that he managed to get the idea for the book onto some kind of dictation machine before his legion of co-authors went to work on the manuscript. (russellblake.com)
These days he works from an office just up the street from us here in the Financial District, fixing dictation machines, fax machines, stenography machines and printers. (legalblogwatch.typepad.com)
Grajales, 67, got his first job with Grundig, a German maker of dictation machines. (legalblogwatch.typepad.com)