Abstract: A memorandum recorder for use with a telephone including a speaker adapted to emit audio signals therefrom. Also included is a memory device for storing audio signals thereon. Finally, a control mechanism is connected to a conventional telephone and is adapted to allow conventional communication via the telephone in a first mode of operation, to allow storage of audio signals inputed from a mouthpiece of the telephone in a second mode of operation upon the depression of a record button, and to allow playback of stored audio signals via the speaker in a third mode of operation upon the depression of a playback button.