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The phrase "a dictation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a spoken text that is to be written down or transcribed, often in an educational context.
Example: "The teacher asked the students to prepare for a dictation on the previous lesson."
Alternatives: "a transcription" or "a written exercise".
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It lets a student dictate math assignments or information, line by line, into a computer microphone, just as someone would dictate a letter with a dictation program.
A dictation from Balzac is too difficult for his students.
Since 1938, the Gray Company has devoted itself to making a dictation machine called the Audograph.
I had to take a dictation back then to become a citizen.
Block, a fine pianist, had bigger ideas than selling a dictation machine.
But how can he explain the feelings a dictation machine can't transcribe?
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I used film like a notebook--a dictation of notes.
A: Holy Dictation.
She became an increasingly dedicated ascetic forming her own cloister of the Poor Ladies and establishing the first female monastic Rule, a formal dictation of an ascetic lifestyle.
But of course, Avatron wouldn't just cook up a straightforward dictation app — there's a twist.
The user of the typewriter would be an amanuensis in other words, a secretary taking dictation from another person.
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