Abstract: A voice actuated voice logging recorder includes logging decks and a recall deck such that voice data may be recorded or played back in the recall deck without interruption of the recording of voice data onto the tape of the logging deck. The invention further includes networks for recording a time code modulated by a unique signal indicative of the beginning of each message of voice data and for automatically repositioning the tape of the recall deck in response to the detection of the unique signal.

Abstract: A voice actuated voice logging recorder adapted to use magnetic recording tape in preloaded magazines includes a logging deck having a transport mechanism, means responsive to an input signal corresponding to voice data for enabling the transport mechanism to switch to a run position and a verification network which is activated upon insertion of a magazine into the deck. The verification network is particularly desirable to overcome limitations in the reliability of typical cassette recorders, and includes a network for rewinding the tape to ensure that all of the tape is on a rewind spool and that the tape is not bound. A second network repositions the rewound tape to enable recording onto the tape and a test recording is then produced to ensure that the tape is properly oriented, i.e., that the tape has not become twisted within the magazine.