I love my Dymo Tape machine and use it a lot, (I've said that here a few times) but it's slow and could benefit from an upgrade. This is the reasoning behind my development of the Dymo Tape Recorder.

As the name suggests, this device is a combination of two basic technologies: a simple voice recorder and a now motorised Dymo Tape printer.

To use the machine, you simply speak one word at a time into its microphone, then squeeze the trigger and the print wheel rotates, stamping out the letters one at a time until the entire message emerges.

Here's how it works:
A small motor now powers the printing wheel, which is supplied by the information it needs from a microphone, linked to the recorder. This also translates the spoken words into individual letters and spaces.

Stupidly complex version enables Mandarin and other many symbol based languages to be printed using a system of multiple wheels

Deluxe Dymo Tape Recorder stores extended messages on a larger drum, that can print them out later.
-- xenzag, Apr 29 2022

DYMO sells a label maker with voice input. https://www.amazon....82171/dp/B01M9DNPYE
About 45 seconds into the demo video. [doctorremulac3, Apr 30 2022]

+ I would try this but I do talk to text and you should see what that says most of the time! Ha ha
-- xandram, Apr 29 2022


This is an interesting idea. Aren't electric Dymo machines already available? I only had the red plastic handheld device about 100 years ago.

I can see the use for a generic USB or network Dymo printer. You could attach it to whatever you want, that way you could print out your school essay or business letter from the computer by pressing "print" and selecting "Dymo" instead of "inkjet". A voice-to-text unit could run on a Raspberry pi or similar and be attached.

I also can see the possibility of an Edison tinfoil type Dymo printer. The audio input would be inpressed on the dymo tape as a on/off sampled hill-and-valley wave form. Thay way you could hear the playback by running your fingernail down the printed strip.
-- pocmloc, Apr 29 2022


I have an art work titled The Complete Works Of Shakespeare On Dymotape. It's not really halfbakery material. I just liked the idea of printing out his entire works on Dymotape and making them available so that anyone who wants can run around sticking them all over the place.... like all over the inside of a bus, on the runners on Tube escalators etc etc.
-- xenzag, Apr 29 2022


I know about those (link) but they're digital and don't produce the nice mechanically embossed strips of the original Dymotape.
-- xenzag, Apr 30 2022


Okay.
-- doctorremulac3, Apr 30 2022


Surely this could be done with a 3D printer (metal sintering type, even?) & some double-sided tape.
-- neutrinos_shadow, May 01 2022


The whole point is that this is done on old fashioned relief-impressed Dymo tape. Not fakey printed tape, not 3d printed. The proper stuff where the coloured plastic goes white where it is distorted by the letter impression. I always thought it was dead cool.
-- pocmloc, May 01 2022


Fair enough. But there's so much (new) tech being added to it, it's barely recognisable apart from the output of "sticky lettered tape".
-- neutrinos_shadow, May 01 2022


So the new idea added it to take an existing product, the voice activated DYMO label maker, and have a retro version with embossed labels rather than printed.

Still a good idea. I'm not doing the "baked" thing. Seems like kind of a party pooper move.
-- doctorremulac3, May 03 2022



random, halfbakery