Olympus have kicked off the New Year with a 1st January 2014 update to their relatively new smartphone app simply called Olympus Dictation. The update simply states iOS7 compatibility, I have been running the app on my iOS7 iPhone 5 since launch without issue. This update I believe is more specific for iPhone 5S and … read more
Olympus have rolled out another free update to their Mac dictation and transcription software DSS Player Plus v7 which addresses only a couple of things: 1. OS X 10.9 compatibility 2. DS-5500 support (not yet available in Australia) and the ability to set the location of each folder. Here is the official release notes: You … read more
The WS series of digital voice recorders from Olympus is a fantastic little range of three models the WS-811, WS-812 and WS-813. All are perfectly suited for recording small meetings, interviews and soundbites and with its small physical size is a favourite with journalists and the police. The recorders have many features which increase as … read more
With the successful worldwide release of Apple’s latest Mac operating system OS X 10.9 Mavericks a couple of weeks ago, if you are like me you would have installed it straightaway. If you had, when you ran Dragon Dictate you would have been met with this splash screen: Clicking on the “More Info” tab … read more
This weeks release of Apple’s shiny new operating system OS X Mavericks 10.9 builds on the voice-to-text features that appeared in Mountain Lion (10.8) by adding what is called “Enhanced Dictation“. The key difference between Enhanced Dictation in 10.9 and what was available in 10.8 is that the audio you speak can now be processed … read more
Olympus Imaging Australia last week issued a press release announcing their new ODDS (Olympus Dictation Delivery Service) which we discussed in our last post, Olympus Dictation App for iPhone & Android – How Does Free vs Paid Subscription Compare. I thought it would be a good idea to post the press release and give you … read more
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
Olympus this week released a new firmware update for their professional dictation voice recorders, DS-7000 and DS-3500 models. This firmware release is a bit of a milestone in a couple of ways. The reason for the firmware release is to add support for the Toshiba FlashAir wireless LAN embedded SDHC memory cards. FlashAir cards are … read more