Olympus recently revamped their range of direct record or Directrec handheld digital dictation microphones. The Series II Directrec as they are known are comprised of three models in Australia: DR-2100, DR-2200 and the DR-2300 and now replace the Dircterec Series I models: Dr-1000 and DR-2000.
read moreNew Directrec Series II Handheld Digital Dictation Mics From Olympus
Yes we are now back stocking the amazing LiveScribe Echo SmartPen range at Dictate Australia. Some of you, who have been around our site for a while, will recall we were into the LiveScribe SmartPens when they were first released in Australia a few years ago. Distributor problems and tiny margins saw us leave this product behind but a recent move by one of our distributors means we again have full access to the LiveScribe Echo range of SmartPens.
read moreOoh The Excitement – LiveScribe SmartPens Back At Dictate Australia
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.
read moreMusic Lovers Hold Onto Your Hats – Olympus LS-3 Hits Australia
2016 UPDATE .. Well this blog post from 2011 was very short lived and ds2 support in the 5.32 release of Express Scribe turned out to be false. Express Scribe does NOT support the .ds2 Audio Format NCH Software recently outed a new release of the worlds most popular free transcription software for Windows, Express … read more
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).
read moreOlympus LS-20M In Australia – HD Video and PCM Audio In One Small Package
One common question at the Dictate Australia HQ is about files, specifically how can we get large audio files created on digital voice recorders to our colleagues or to a typist. With high quality audio recording the norm now and huge amounts of storage on all digital voice recorders audio can and often is very large in file size. Unfortunately email has not moved with the times and the majority of mail servers restrict email attachments to between 5mb and 10Mb in size, probably rightly so, email is not an ideal way to move large files around.
This is where Dropbox comes in.
With all the flurry of activity over the last week with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) being released along with an upgrade to Dragon Dictate from 2.0 to 2.5 we have had a few calls into our office regarding compatibility of MacSpeech Scribe with Lion. Nuance have recently posted an update on their website (click … read more
Hot on the heels of the Windows update to NaturallySpeaking to 11.5 from 11 (released yesterday in Australia) us Mac users also receive a free bump to our favourite voice recognition software, assuming you are a registered Dragon Dictate 2.0 user. Simply check for updates when you fire up Dragon Dictate and you will be … read more