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Dictaphone was an American company, a producer of dictation machines —sound recording devices most commonly used to record speech for later playback or to be typed into print. The name "Dictaphone" is a trademark, but in some places it has also become a common way to refer to all such devices, and is used as a genericized trademark. Thomas A. Edison dictating in 1907 A dictation machine is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for later playback or to be typed into print. ...
Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. ...
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A genericized trademark, generic trade mark, generic descriptor, or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which has become the colloquial or generic description for a particular class of product or service. ...
History The name "Dictaphone" was trademarked by the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1907, which soon became the leading manufacturer of such devices. Dictaphone was spun off into a separate company in 1923 under the leadership of C. King Woodbridge, whose brother-in-law, George Albert Kimball successfully designed and built both the sewer system and then the subway system for the city of Boston. The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. ...
Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A Dictaphone advertisement from 1917 After relying on wax cylinder recording through the end of World War II, in 1947 Dictaphone introduced their Dictabelt technology, which cut a mechanical groove into a plastic belt instead of into a wax cylinder. This was later replaced by magnetic tape recording and eventually hard-drive recording. Dictaphone Cylinder, from 1917 magazine ad This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ...
Dictaphone Cylinder, from 1917 magazine ad This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ...
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1917 Dictaphone advertisement A Dictaphone is a sound recording device most commonly used to record speech for later playback or to be typed into print. ...
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In 1979 Dictaphone was purchased by Pitney Bowes but was kept as a wholly owned but autonomous subsidiary. Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), the worlds biggest maker of postal meters and mailing equipment and provider of mailing and delivery software and services to companies, is ranked 394th in the 2006 Fortune 500, with $5. ...
In 1995 Pitney Bowes sold Dictaphone to the investment group Stonington Partners of Connecticut for a reported $462 million.
During the following years, Dictaphone sold a range of products, including voice recognition and voicemail software. Speech recognition technologies allow computers equipped with a source of sound input, such as a microphone, to interpret human speech, e. ...
Voicemail (or voice mail, vmail or VMS, sometimes called messagebank) is a centralized system of managing telephone messages for a large group of people. ...
In 2000 Dictaphone was acquired by the then-leading Belgian voice recognition and translation company Lernout & Hauspie for nearly $1 billion. Lernout & Hauspie provided the voice recognition technology for Dictaphone's voice recognition enhanced transcription system. Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a Belgium-based speech and language technology leader company, which was founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, and which went bankrupt in 2001. ...
Speech recognition technologies allow computers equipped with a source of sound input, such as a microphone, to interpret human speech, e. ...
Soon after the purchase and triggered by an increased ownership of US companies—following the purchase of Dictaphone, within a month Lernout & Hauspie purchased its main voice-recognition competitor in the US, Dragon Systems, who has since been acquired by Nuance Communications, Inc.—the SEC raised questions about Lernout & Hauspie’s finances, focusing on reported income from its East Asian endeavors which seemed to sky-rocket during these times. Subsequently the company and all its subsidiaries were forced into bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11 for US assets such as Dictaphone). Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. ...
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Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code governs the process of reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. ...
In early 2002, Dictaphone emerged from Chapter 11 as a privately held organization with Rob Schwager as its Chairman and CEO, while the remaining assets were broken-up and sold individually with ScanSoft, now known as Nuance Communications, Inc., acquiring core businesses such as Dragon Systems and voice recognition research personnel in the US. A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ...
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In 2004 Dictaphone was split into three divisions:
- IHS - Healthcare Division focuses on Dictation for the medical industry
- IVS - Dictation for Law Offices and Police Stations
- CRS - Communications Recording Solutions. Focuses on recording Phones and Radios in Public Safety Organizations and Quality Monitoring solutions for Call Centers.
In June 2005 Dictaphone sold its Communications Recording Solutions to NICE Systems for $38.5 million, which was considered a great bargain in the industry. It has since focused its goals in speech recognition for the healthcare industry with only limited success, mainly building on its well established brand name. NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is the leading provider of Insight from Interactionsâ„¢ solutions, which help organizations in the enterprise and public and security sectors extract critical, specific and relevant business or security intelligence from unstructured multimedia content such as telephone calls with customers, emails, chat, emergency calls, and CCTV video...
In September 2005 Dictaphone sold the IVS Business outside USA to a Swiss Company Dictaphone IVS AG in Urdorf Switzerland (today called Calison AG) who developed the first hardware independent dictation management software solution "FRISBEE" with integrated speech recognition and workflow management.
In February/March 2006 the remainder of Dictaphone was sold for $357 million to Nuance Communications, formerly known as ScanSoft, ending its short tenure as an independent company it started in early 2002 and effectively closing a circle of events it started in early 2000 by being sold to Lernout & Hauspie (assets of which were sold to ScanSoft/Nuance in the events of early 2002). Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. ...
Scansoft Incorporated is a (primarily) Belgian-based computer software technology company focusing on productivity software. ...
Dictaphone has now become a division within Nuance Communications, and in March 2007 Nuance acquired Focus Infomatics to further expand in the healthcare transcription business. In most recent financial results non-GAAP revenues were at $56.9 million in the quarter (March 2007-June 2007), including the contribution of Focus and up 31% over the same revenue last year. Excluding the benefit of Focus, Dictaphone revenues were $51.4 million, a record level for the Company and up 18% organically from a year ago.
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