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New Olympus WS Series Recorders For 2012 – WS-811/WS-812/WS-813

February 7, 2012February 1, 2012 by @dictates

New WS Series Digital Voice Recorders From Olympus - WS-811 - WS-812 - WS-813

In my last blog post I talked about some new innovative technology that Olympus have built into to their new range of WS series digital voice recorders which was announced in early January 2012 and on display on the Olympus stand at CES 2012 in San Francisco.

In this post we will look a little closer at the new three digital voice recorders (WS-811, WS-812 and WS-813), see how they are different from the models they will replace (WS-650S/WS-750M/WS-760M) and speculate on when we might see these in Australia. Gone finally is the trailing letter on the model of the recorders that we have seen for so many years where S used to denote Stereo and M was for music, now simply the series, WS, and the model number.

New Olympus WS Series Digital Voice Recorders

Olympus WS-811 – 2Gb
Olympus WS-812 – 4Gb
Olympus WS-813 – 8Gb

Innovations We Can Expect From Olympus Voice In 2012 – Voice Changer, Playback and Balancer

June 1, 2012February 1, 2012 by @dictates

Olympus Voice New Innovative Digital Voice Recorder Features

January is not only the time of year where you and I make resolutions doomed to fail in the first week but more importantly the time of the year where the worlds gadget companies and technology press converge at CES to show the world their latest and greatest for the future and the upcoming year. Olympus is just another name in the crowd at CES showcasing new digital voice recorders and some interesting additions to the feature set of a digital voice recorder.

Replacing Your Old Olympus Digital Voice Recorder – What Is The Current Equivalent Model?

July 22, 2019January 3, 2012 by @dictates

Olympus Discontinued Voice Recorder Models

Olympus voice are an innovative bunch, they don’t tend to sit on their hands doing not a lot, they keep refining and evolving their range of digital voice recorders. It is not uncommon to see digital voice recorder models come and go in the space of a single year. As such we often find customers coming back after years of use to replace their digital note taker or dictaphone only to find that their old model voice recorder has been replaced by a newer model.

In an attempt to make finding the current equivalent voice recorder to replace your old trusty Olympus digital voice recorder a little easier I have compiled a list of old models and their latest equivalents. This list covers PCM music recorders, interview/meeting/focus group recorders, budget recorders, the Pro range of digital dictaphones and finally Olympus digital transcription kits.

Firmware Update: Olympus DM-3 & DM-5 Version 1.30 Now Available

November 11, 2011 by @dictates

October 2011: Olympus voice have posted an update to the firmware for the Olympus DM-3 and DM-5 digital voice recorders. The latest version jumps from 1.20 to 1.30 and included updates specifically for the DM-5 model and is focussed around DAISY, digital talking books for the vision impaired. The official change from firmware version 1.20 … read more

Can Dragon NaturallySpeaking Transcribe Meetings Or Interviews?

September 22, 2020October 26, 2011 by @dictates

This post revised November 2012 with updated Dragon version details for Mac and Windows. Another update, early 2017. The below pretty much holds true still but there have been some advancements in voice-to-text software since this blog was originally written. We are starting to see some success with transcribing one on one interviews. Multi … read more

Is My Digital Voice Recorder, iPhone or iPad Recording App Compatible With Dragon NaturallySpeaking?

October 23, 2012October 14, 2011 by @dictates

Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance, currently at version 12, can use a digital recording of your spoken voice and transcribe that into text (Premium and Professional versions only), this is commonly referred to as deferred transcription. With so many people now owning either a digital voice recorder and/or an iPhone or iPad with a voice recording … read more

Music Lovers Hold Onto Your Hats – Olympus LS-3 Hits Australia

September 18, 2011September 18, 2011 by @dictates

Olympus LS-3 PCM Music Digital Recorder

The latest music digital recorder from Olympus is now available in Australia, the Olympus LS-3 comes hot on the heels of the demise of its predecessors the LS-10 and LS-11 and puts its hand up as the sole recorder in the current Olympus Australia range aimed at recording music.

Olympus LS-20M In Australia – HD Video and PCM Audio In One Small Package

August 18, 2011August 18, 2011 by @dictates

If you check in on our blog often you would have noticed us drooling of the amazing Olympus LS-20M a few months back, in case you missed it here is the link – please note the massive close up picture of the LS-20M just to ram home how cool this little device is.

Well in the latest pricing released to all Olympus Australia resellers today you could almost hear the shouts of “yippee” across the country as we rubbed our eyes in disbelief, the LS-20M is now available in Australia (or will be in the next week or two).