[sdevonoes]

> 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. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictation_(exercise)

Here the software is the "person who is dictating".

[layer8]

It’s not dictation if the spoken text is not recorded or written down by a device (voice recorder) or by a human.

[tirpen]

> Here the software is the "person who is dictating".

And who is the "person who is taking dictation" then? Who is writing down the words the software is speaking?