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What exactly is a dictaphone and how does it work? - sm

Posted: Mar 27, 2012

I've never usedone and have no clue about it. Is it easy to use ? Hard to use? Clunky? Can you hear ok with it?

do you mean Dictaphone C-phone? - hmmm

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It is a machine that looks exactly like an old phone with a keypad and some other buttons that you could program for things (like autodial). You can pick up the hand set and use it to talk/listen like any other home phone. But it also comes with a stethoscope headset and a foot pedal. The adaptors are specific to Dictaphone and you can't use a DVI foot pedal or generic headset without using an adaptor.

Instead of using your computer to get digitalized or VoIP dictation, the C-phone is used. Everything is the same except you need a phone line (usually an unlimited long distance plan to boot). You are calling into a Dictation computer where the dictation files are held. Keytones from the number pad control things like "mark job complete" or the rate of back up or fast forward. The generic version of a Dictaphone C-phone is a DAC machine, which started out costing much less, but now they cost about the same to buy because they are outdated compared with today's technology.

This was the technology that brought us away from having to use tapes.

It doesn't say C-phone, just says Dictaphone - sm

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Is there a software maybe that is called Dictaphone? This could be a C-phone, but they just didn't say that. I've never worked off one. It sounds like it may be time consuming.

Thanks so much for explaining what a C-phone is! I'll ask about this.

Dictaphone is the company name - hmmm

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and offer different products, that's why I asked if you meant a C-phone. I interviewed with someone recently who asked if I had Dictaphone and I asked her, "do you mean a C-phone?" She said yes, but she had stopped saying "C-phone" because people thought she meant cell phone :)

If you are interviewing for a job and they ask you if you have a Dictaphone machine, then 99.99% they are referring to a C-phone made by Dictaphone.

Why don't you tell us what they said and then maybe - we can explain it.

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No, working off a C-phone is not time-consuming. It works just fine. I used one for years.

Dictaphone makes a bunch of stuff.

If you can tell us exactly what they said we can probably explain it. It may make more sense to us than to you.

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