Definition of "dictater"
dictater
noun
plural dictaters
One who dictates; one who gives dictation.
Quotations
When, however, in any particular case, he has no assured means of determining the true spelling of the name, he should always quietly interrupt the dictater with the request, " Spell it , please," and then write the name in longhand from the dictater's spelling.
1910, Jerome Bird Howard, The Phonographic Amanuensis, page 210