Stenomask

Some lightweight versions may be fitted with an elastic neck strap to hold them in place while freeing the user's hands for other tasks.

Perhaps more importantly, a stenomask silences the user's voice so that it does not interfere with the surrounding environment such as a court or a classroom.

The user can verbally identify the speaker, indicate gestures and unspoken answers, and describe activities as they take place.

"[3] In covering Wisconsin's first official voice writer, the Racine Journal Times began by explaining that the mask is not "a way to summon his minions to build the Death Star.

After much experimentation — first with a cigar box and then a tomato juice can — he arrived at a solution using a microphone inside a military aviator's rubber oxygen mask, paired with a coffee pot filled with sound-absorbing material.