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means Dictation is speaking words aloud for someone or something else to record in writing, word for word.

from From Latin dictare, 'to say repeatedly, to prescribe,' itself a frequentative of dicere, 'to say.' The frequentative form matters — it implies not just speaking but speaking again and again, the way you must when someone else is scrambling to write down every word. The same root gives us 'dictionary,' 'verdict,' and 'dictator' — all words about speech claiming authority over what gets written or done.