As we wrote a couple of weeks ago, Olympus released an iPhone and Android digital voice recorder dictation app. Since then Olympus around the globe, including here in Australia, have held information sessions with their professional audio dealers to educate them on what is called ODDS (Olympus Dictation Delivery System), a cloud based secure file … read more
## UPDATE May 2017 ## : The latest versions of Dragon for Mac (v6) and Dragon for Windows (v15) are huge improvements on the version of Dragon available when this post was originally written. Click here to look at this blog post which has video examples of voice-to-text for single speaker audio as well as … read more
The complete range of Olympus Pro digital dictation devices have been bumped up the Dragon speech accuracy ladder by Nuance to achieve the highest possible rating for use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows, six out of six Dragons. The rating applies to all the handheld dictation devices in the current Olympus line up, which are: … read more
Olympus have just release a new microphone in Australia called the ME-33. The ME-33 is commonly known as a boundary or array microphone and connects to any Olympus digital voice recorder including the Pro DS series dictaphones (DS-7000/DS-3500) and the traditional meeting recorders like the DM-3 (this is the preferred recorder with the ME-33’s) or … read more
Olympus have released a new firmware update for the Olympus DS-7000 and DS-3500 professional digital dictaphones. To the average users there is no urgency to install this update which contains a couple of minor tweak to the voice recorders firmware. The two updates included in this release are: 1. Supports MIF (Metadata Import Function) Enables … read more
Drum roll please …. Olympus have just rolled out the latest update to DSS Player Plus v7 for the Mac going to version 7.3.3. The update includes the fix/change/feature to convert audio recorded on their professional digital dictation machines (DS-7000/DS-5000) in DSS Pro (.ds2) format to high quality .AIF which can be used by Nuance’s … read more
Olympus have recently pushed out a new firmware update for the Olympus DS-7000 and DS-3500, both in the professional range of digital dictaphones. The firmware update is the second release since the recorders launch and takes it to version v1.02. The complete firmware version history is below for reference. Download the latest firmware by clicking … read more
##UPDATE January 2013## ## DSS Player Plus v7.3.3 Released – click here I received a heart warming email from the Olympus Australia Dictation Product Manager yesterday. The email contained the release notes for the next version of Olympus’ Mac digital dictation software called DSS Player Plus v7 expected to be released in early 2013. DSS … read more