At the time of writing this post, mid-October 2020, it has been exactly two and a half years since we saw the Olympus DS-9500 dictaphone and the new R7 release of ODMS software (Olympus Dictation Management System) for Windows. So it would be fair to speculate the something new is coming soon, but what will … read more
**UPDATE** DSS Player Plus v7.7.4 (and above) now supports macOS Big Sur – download here: dictat.es/mac-downloads If you use an Olympus Digital Dictaphone user exclusively on a Mac you are encouraged to hold-off upgrading to the latest Mac operating system major update to macOS 11 Big Sur when it is released. Initial testing of DSS … read more
Q: Can I use Olympus Dictaphones with Philips SpeechLive? A: YES ! In the digital dictation world there are really only two camps, you are either Olympus or Philips. We often find brand loyalty, both have been in the digital voice space for years, but people like to stick with what they know. But, Philips … read more
Philips Dictation have just released a new iOS app for digital dictation called the Philips SpeechLive app. As the name suggests it is for their Philips SpeechLive subscribers and can be used instead of the original Philips Voice Recorder App. The Voice Recorder app which will remain for Dictation Hub users and those Philips SpeechLive … read more
Microsoft via Office 365 has officially joined the speech recognition club by enabling the new “Transcribe” function in Word. Transcribe is essentially automatic transcription of voice or voices to text. Yes, voices! Transcribe can convert speech to text for more than one speaking voices to text and it can identify those speakers, we have an … read more
SpeechExec v10 End-of-Support – Upgrade to Philips SpeechExec Pro v11 or SpeechLive Philips Dictation Australia has just announced that version v10 of their popular SpeechExec dictation and transcription software for Windows will go End-of-Support on 20th November 2020. What does end-of-support mean? This means that there will be no more updates released for SpeechExec v10 … read more
Philips Dictation has this month announced a couple of enhancement to their SpeechLive Australian hosted cloud dictation and transcription system. SpeechLive Email Notifications for Typists First up for the SpeechLive typists you will now receive a bit more detail in your email when you are notified of new dictations uploaded to SpeechLive. Rather than just … read more
The onslaught of regular firmware updates for the Olympus DS-9500 wifi enabled digital dictaphones continues with this firmware release v1.150 issued today. The regularity of the firmware updates is a good thing, it shows that Olympus is listening to feedback from the global user community and dealers and shows their dedication to continually improve the … read more