You can also purchase digital recorders that have voice activation. While digital recorders don't use tape, they often have larger recording capacities than microcassette recorders.

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquito… ...

When the application is launched, you are met with the face of an old-fashioned portable tape recorder and a tape drawer. To get started, all you have to do is push the record button, causing both ...

Commercial videotape recording began in the late 1950s. Though audio recordings on acetate strips had been done for many years, the considerably higher bandwidth of the television signal required new ...

Louis Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94.