Olympus Australia have recently announced a trade-in promotion which runs until the end of October 2014. To qualify for upto $100 cash back when you buy a qualifying brand new Olympus digital dictaphone all you have to do is trade in your old, tired digital or analog tape voice recorder/dictaphone. That’s all there is to it … read more
A news story prominent in Victoria today highlights the use, importance and in some cases danger of a digital voice recorder and potentially the audio that it can contain. To summarise the story it is alleged that senior members of the Australian Labor Party stole The Age’s political editor Farrah Tomazin’s digital voice recorder which contained a … read more
Olympus are about to discontinue support for the ground breaking DSS Player Pro release 5 that has served many a dictator and professional transcriptionist well over the last few years. And, as a word of warning for those still clinging to this release, now is the time to finally bite the bullet and upgrade to … read more
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
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