AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE ANSWERING DEVICE

An automatic telephone answering device wherein a message recording tape is started to run simultaneously with the start of running of an answering tape having an answer signal recorded thereon. The message recording tape is recorded on its first track with only the answer signal and on its second track with a composite signal consisting of the answer signal and the incoming message signal. At the time of reproduction, the answer signal on the first track of the recording tape is phase-inverted and the composite signal reproduced from the second track of the recording tape is mixed with the phase-inverted answer signal to cancel the answer signal, whereby only the message signal is audibly reproduced by a speaker.