citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message grundig business systems type gmbh industry office equipment founded 2001 headquarters bayreuth nuremberg germany key people roland hollstein ceo products digital and analogue dictation devices number of employees 170 website www.grundig gbs.com grundig business systems gbs is a german company located in bayreuth and nuremberg in germany and employs 170 people . since 2001 it has been an independent corporation manufacturing analogue and digital dictation devices featuring the made in germany quality label . contents 1 background 2 history 3 references 4 external links background edit the company has continually offered its speech processing solutions since the birth of the stenorette a the first grundig dictation machine on the market which took place over 50 years ago . the steno cassette 30 developed by grundig in 1983 became the din standard . in association with a consortium project of the international voice association the . dss digital speech standard was developed by grundig in 1995 . the dictation machine production has been independent from its former parent grundig under the name of grundig business systems since late 2003 . history edit the first grundig dictation device stenorette was launched on the market in 1954 . because of its initial green casing the dictation device was simply called tree frog by the workers . three years later max grundig opened the as he called it largest tape recorder factory in the world in bayreuth . since then dictation devices from grundig business systems have been produced at this location . the number of employees in bayreuth rose to 2 000 in the midst sixties . the seventies saw the introduction of the first mini index cassette for dictation devices with integrated tape counter steno cassette 30 . grundig also produced the stenorette 2002 featuring the first desktop dictation system with the k 30 steno cassette and the stenorette sl a portable dictation system for use both in and out of the office . both products were manufactured for nearly twenty years . the steno cassette 30 became the din standard din 32750 in 1983 . at the beginning of the nineties gbs developed the first digital dictation system in the world pc dictation 2000 . for the first time speech information was digitalized and stored on the pc s hard drive . the dss standard digital speech standard was developed and introduced by grundig as a joint project of the iva international voice association comprising grundig olympus and philips in the course of the decade . dictation machine activities were separated from the grundig corporation in 2001 a new company was established since then the grundig business systems gmbh has been operating profitably . thus it was not affected by the later insolvency of the grundig corporation . the first digital dictation device from the digta brand was launched one year later . in 2003 grundig business systems was acquired by the induc ag today induc gmbh . afterwards the stenorette digital sd 4240 was launched in 2004 featuring a transcription system processing both analogue and digital dictations . gbs introduced the world s first rfid scanner for dictation devices in 2005 . the digta 410 the first device of the 400 series followed one year later . in 2007 the digta 420 was the world s first mobile dictation device featuring a colour display . it supports the improved dsspro voice standard which was developed under the auspices of gbs . the digta cordex the world s first wireless dictation microphone for professional use was presented by gbs in 2008 . for this product gbs was awarded the innovation prize it 2009 at the cebit trade show in hanover in march 2009 . 1 in 2011 grundig business systems introduced a new generation of digital dictation products the digta 7 product line . this series consists of the digta 7 premium bt the digta 7 premium the digta 7 and the digta 7 push . the digta 7 premium bt is the world s first ever dictation device that can be used to transfer dictations on the go via bluetooth to a smartphone . another dictation breakthrough is the slide switch with a touch pin which three of the four digta 7 products include . the touch pin enables the user to operate the dictation device by feel ; when set on stop the touch pin protrudes slightly from the switch . the first stenorette from the year 1954 called tree frog stenorette sl in a case steno cassette 30 digta cordex digta 7 with the digta station 447 plus references edit innovationspreis it 2009 category office digta cordex wins innovation price it 2009 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to grundig dictation machines . grundig business systems gmbh retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title grundig business systems & oldid 693004522 categories electronics companies of germanyoffice supply companies of germanycompanies based in nurembergcompanies established in 20012001 establishments in germanyhidden categories articles needing additional references from september 2009all articles needing additional referencescommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 29 november 2015 at 20 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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