Sound recorders and players, generally magnetic specially studied to record speech, which is played back and listened to for typing purposes. The Dictaphone differs from normal recorders for certain features that make it easier to use, for example, when dictating the recording can be remotely started and stopped from the microphone, it can be wound back and listened to. It is the forerunner of the modern tape recorder.

”Ediphone T.A.Edison” Dictaphone – late 1800