**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
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
## Updated July 2024 ## What has changed since the post was originally published in 2020? Here is the list: Olympus is now called OM System ODMS R7 from Olympus has been superseded by ODMS R8 from OM System ODMS now stands for OM System Dictation Management System Olympus ODDS (cloud based dictation workflow solution … read more
Olympus ODDS May-June 2020 Outage What Happened? From May 28th to June 10th the Olympus ODDS service either delayed sending of audio for hours or days or was completely down. The server which receives and then distributes all the dictation from the Olympus Dictation App globally reached its limits and was unable to scale mainly … read more
Olympus has released an update to their Web SCP (Software Configuration Program) taking it to version 7.2.2 – this release brings with it a number of improvements and fixes. SCP is a web-based program that can be used by Admin to manage multiple authors (people who dictate) and transcribers for a company centrally. It can … read more
Olympus ODMS R7 No Longer Supported On Windows 7 After January 14, 2020 We have all long known that Microsoft would pull the plug on the support of their older yet still popular Windows 7 operating system mid-January 2020. Well, Olympus is doing the same for their ODMS R7 Dictation & Transcription Module software. With … read more
Olympus DS-9000 & DS-2600 Firmware Update Olympus has just released (November 2019) a new firmware update v1.052 for the Olympus DS-9000 and Olympus DS-2600 model digital dictaphones. Where can I download the latest firmware update for Olympus DS-9000 and DS-2600? The firmware update can be downloaded from the official Olympus website: Download the latest Olympus DS-9000 firmware installers for macOS … read more
Olympus has just released a major update v2.0.0 for the Olympus Dictation App available for iOS iPhone and Android. What has changed? The update will be a major disruptor for users who have been using the app to simply record and then email dictations, i.e. without an ODDS subscription licence. The audio recorded was in … read more