dictation

/dɪkˈteɪ·ʃən/ n [U]

Definition

› the act of saying something aloud, so that your words can be prepared in writing by someone else: Can we get someone from the agency who takes dictation? › Dictation is also the reading aloud of a piece of writing in a language being learned in order to test the ability of students to hear and write the language correctly: a dictation exercise

(Definition of dictation n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)