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Steno-Cassette

The Steno-Cassette can be distinguished from other formats by its integrated tape counter
Media type:magnetic tape
Encoding:analog signal
Capacity:30 min
Read mechanism:tape head
Write mechanism:tape head
Standard:DIN 32750
Developed by:Grundig
Usage:stenography
Extended from:1971


The Steno-Cassette is an analog cassette format for dictation, introduced by Grundig in 1971.[1] It gained widespread use in Germany, where it was established as a DIN standard (DIN 32750) in 1985. It is easily distinguished from other dictation cassette formats (such as the Microcassette) by the integrated tape counter index, showing the amount of tape available.

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Audio format
Analog
Phonograph cylinder (1877) • Gramophone record (1895) • Wire recording (1898) • Reel-to-reel tape (1940s) • SoundScriber (1945) • Gray Audograph (1945) • Dictabelt (1947) • Microgroove record (1948) • RCA tape cartridge (1958) • Fidelipac (1959) • Stereo-Pak (1962) • Compact Cassette (1963) and cassette single (1982) • Stereo 8 (1964) • PlayTape (1966) • Mini Cassette (1967) • Microcassette (1969) • Steno-Cassette (1971) • Elcaset (1976) • Picocassette (1985)
Digital
Soundstream (1976) • 3M (1979) • X80/ProDigi (1980) • DASH (1982) • Compact Disc (1982) • Digital Audio Tape (1987) • ADAT (1991) • MiniDisc (1991) • Digital Compact Cassette (1992) • Extended Resolution Compact Disc (1995) • High Definition Compatible Digital (1995) • 5.1 Music Disc (1997) • Super Audio CD (1999) • DVD-Audio (2000)

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Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording generally consisting of a thin magnetizable coating on a long and narrow strip of plastic. Nearly all recording tape is of this type, whether used for recording audio or video or for computer data storage.
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Encoding is the process of transforming information from one format into another. The opposite operation is called decoding.

There are a number of more specific meanings that apply in certain contexts:

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An analog or analogue signal is any time continuous signal where some time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity. It differs from a digital signal in that small fluctuations in the signal are meaningful.
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Happy", "Cupid" and "Hate You" and Ty Tabor brought "Ocean" to the Tapehead recording sessions.
  • All other songs were band created during the recording session - a song a day for 14 days.
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    • The term International Standard may refer to
    • International standard
    • International Standard (dance), a category of ballroom dance


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    Grundig AG is a German manufacturer of consumer electronics for home entertainment. Max Grundig established the company in Nuremberg in 1945, shortly after World War II.
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    Shorthand is an abbreviated, symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow, close) and
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    Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken.

    La dictée

    For speakers of French, la dictée
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    Grundig AG is a German manufacturer of consumer electronics for home entertainment. Max Grundig established the company in Nuremberg in 1945, shortly after World War II.
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    Anthem
    "Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
    also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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    Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardization) is the German national organization for standardization and is that country's ISO member body.
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    standardization or standardisation can have several meanings depending on its context. Common use of the word standard implies that it is a universally agreed-upon set of guidelines for interoperability.
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    Microcassette

    A Microcassette is significantly smaller than a Compact Cassette
    Media type: Magnetic tape
    Encoding: Analog signal
    Capacity: MC60 (30 min per side at 2.
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    An audio format is a medium for storing sound and music. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content – in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use usually refers to the
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    phonograph cylinders. Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (c. 1888–1915), these cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was played on a mechanical phonograph.
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    gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc.
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    Wire recording is a type of analogue audio storage in which the recording is made onto thin steel or stainless steel wire.

    History

    The first wire recorder was the Valdemar Poulsen Telegraphone of the late 1890s, and wire recorders for law/office dictation and telephone
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    Reel-to-reel, open reel tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette.
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    The SoundScriber was a dictation format introduced in 1945. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, and, along with the competing Gray Audograph and DictaBelt, is one of the few examples of a groove-based recording medium.
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    The Gray Audograph was a dictation format introduced in 1945. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber. It was manufactured by the Gray Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States.
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    The Dictabelt was a form of recording medium introduced by the American Dictaphone company in 1947. It used a stylus to record sounds by pressing a groove into a plastic belt. Previously, Dictaphone's products had used wax cylinders as their recording medium.
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    gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc.
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    RCA Victor tape cartridge
    Media type: Magnetic tape cartridge
    Encoding: Analog
    Capacity: 30 min per side, two sided
    Developed by: RCA
    Dimensions: 5 x 7 1/8 x 1/2 inches
    (127 x 197 x 13 mm)
    Usage: Home audio recording
    Extended from: 1958
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    Fidelipac is the official name of the industry standard audio tape cartridge used for radio broadcasting for playback of material over the air such as commercials, jingles, station IDs, and music.
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    Stereo-Pak

    Media type: magnetic tape
    Encoding: analog signal
    Read mechanism: tape head
    Write mechanism: magnetic recording head
    Developed by: Muntz
    Usage: Car audio playback
    The Muntz Stereo-Pak, commonly known as the 4-track cartridge
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    Compact Cassette

    Typical 60-minute Compact Cassette
    Media type: magnetic tape
    Encoding: analog signal
    Capacity: 23 minutes per side (C46)
    30 minutes per side (C60)
    45 minutes per side (C90)
    50 minutes per side (C100)
    60 minutes per side (C120)
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    Cassette single

    Two U.S. cassette singles and their cardboard slipcases: Donald Fagen's "Century's End" (1988) and the Rolling Stones' "Mixed Emotions" (1989)
    Media type: magnetic tape
    Encoding: analog signal
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    Stereo 8

    An 8-track cartridge of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
    Media type: magnetic tape
    Encoding: analog signal
    Capacity: Four pairs of stereo channels
    Read mechanism: tape head
    Write mechanism: magnetic recording head
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    Playtape was an audiotape format and playback system introduced in 1966 by Frank Stanton. It was a two-track system, and was launched to compete with existing 4-track cartridge technology. The tapes played anywhere from 8 to twenty-four minutes, and were self rewinding.
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    Mini Cassette

    Media type: magnetic tape
    Encoding: analog signal
    Capacity: 30 minutes
    Read mechanism: tape head
    Write mechanism: magnetic recording head
    Developed by: Philips
    Usage: dictation
    The Mini Cassette, often written minicassette
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