What the FLAC? Olympus LS-P4 The Audio Ying to Your 4K Video Yang

Recently released in the Olympus LS Series (recorders typically aimed at music and nature sound recording) is the Olympus LS-P4 … what’s so different about this little LS recorder I hear you say, well its the first Olympus recorder to record in FLAC. Olympus clearly going after the YouTube generation of videographers with this model, … read more

Olympus DS-9500 Launched In Australia with ODMS R7 & AS-9000

Announced 4th April by Olympus Australia (official press release) the new professional digital dictaphone the Olympus DS-9500 will be available later this month from Dictate Australia – dictate.com.au This will replace the very popular DS-7000 model which was launched almost five years ago to the day back in April 2012. Highlights: Olympus DS-9500 will come with … read more

[FIXED] OS X 10.13 High Sierra Update Breaks Olympus DSS Player Plus for Mac Software

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FIXED 9th SEPTEMBER 2017 – DSS Player Plus v7.5.4 – Download here http://dictat.es/dss754 If you, like me, are keen to get your hands on the latest and greatest Mac operating system, OS X 10.13 a.k.a. High Sierra then hold your horses, especially if you use the Olympus DSS Player Plus for Mac software for transcription … read more

Free Voice Recognition from Apple, Microsoft & Google

Google Voice Typing - Voice Recognition

** This post was originally written in 2017. ** UPDATE September 2020: Microsoft release the Transcribe feature in Word online for Mac and PC, here is the post: dictat.es/word-transcribe Voice recognition or voice-to-text isn’t anything new, it has been around for years made by a company called Nuance in the form of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Recently … read more

The Best Hand Held Mic for Dragon Voice Recognition Dictation

Dragon Certified Microphone Olympus RM-4110S Rm-4100S RM-4010P

Olympus have just released worldwide a new set of RecMic (hand held, USB connected) microphones for use with Dragon’s speech recognition software. Of the five models released worldwide only these three will be available in Australia: Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch + Clickable Trackball + 4 Programmable Buttons Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch … read more

Drastically Reduce Transcription Costs & Time With Voice to Text Software for Mac & Windows

We have been writing this blog for quite a few years now, our first post was back in early 2009. Since then we have covered advances in the voice recording world and touched on speech recognition software here and there. We were even resellers for Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows for a while and were helping … read more

Now You Can Use Olympus Transcription Foot Pedals With Third Party Software

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Want to use an Olympus USB transcription foot pedal with Express Scribe, Windows Media Player or any other audio or video playback software? Now you can with the free Olympus Foot Switch Configuration Tool for both Windows and Mac. Olympus are well known for their innovation and equipment in the digital voice recording, dictation and … read more

Olympus ODMS Patch 16 Released – Update Your Dictation / Transcription Module Software

Olympus Australia just released another patch for their ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) dictation and transcription module software. The latest patch, known as Patch0016 contains a number of undisclosed bug fixes and minor improvements. It is recommended for all users of Olympus ODMS, both dictation and transcription module, to apply this patch.  Recently there have … read more