dictation
dik tay shuhn
- n an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- n speech intended for reproduction in writing
- n matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage
he signed and mailed his dictation without bothering to read it
- VoiceMode's current discrete dictation means that users must pause between words, but CEO Rich Geruson says, "The next step is to speak naturally and continuously in full sentences.
- The same month in Hong Kong, seven-year-old Ng Dik-wai failed an exam in Chinese dictation, went home and leaped out of his high-rise apartmentearning him a place as among Asia .
- The Picocassette, as it is called, weighs three grams and can hold 60 minutes of dictation on a tape that moves a glacial nine-tenths of a centimeter per second.