Dictate Australia has recently become a Philips digital audio dealer. We were nudged this way by some of our clients who wanted an alternative to the popular Olympus Dictation App, that being the Philips Recorder App. Although both apps work off of a yearly subscription model their subscription options are very different, this gives individual … read more
Olympus BR-403 Rechargeable Battery for Olympus DS-5000 Digital Dictaphone Discontinued We just sold our last Olympus BR-403, the replacement rechargeable battery for the ageing, yet still in many peoples cases fully functional, Olympus DS-5000 dictaphone. In our time we had sold over 500 of these batteries clearly showing that the recorder was easily outlasting the … read more
Dictate Australia has just launched an online presence in New Zealand for Olympus digital dictation and transcription equipment and software with their new store Dictate New Zealand – dictates.nz The new store comes after both an increase in online traffic and LiveChat sessions with people based in New Zealand looking for the latest Olympus digital … read more
We often get asked for sample audio files so only made sense to make a blog containing said files. These sample files are the .ds2 audio files created by the pro digital dictaphones from Olympus, Grundig and Phillips and set the standard in the digital dictation world especially for confidential audio, hence the popularity with … read more
Mobile dictation has been a rapidly growing space over the last couple of years. The ability to dictate at court, on hospital visits or just from home without the hassle of attaching devices to computers and installing expensive additional software just get your audio to your typist all while using a device (smartphone) then generally never … read more
Search on the Apple App Store or Google Play for dictation apps and there are plenty to choose from. Most will mimic the professional handheld dictaphones allowing audio to be recorded while stopping/starting and rewinding to hear what was last said and then continue before completing an audio file. This is great and gives the … read more
In May 2015 Olympus released an update to their professional digital dictation voice recorder models DS-7000 and DS-3500. Your device can be updated from either a Windows PC or a Mac, the firmware zip file containers update files for both platforms. The official firmware update file is called DS7000_DSP_v200_FwUp.zip and contains only two files: Mac_DS7000_DSP_v200_FwUp.dmg Win_DS7000_DSP_v200_FwUp.exe You … read more
The stats speak for themselves, use of a smartphone for professional legal and medical dictation is growing and at a rapid rate. The chart above shows the growth for our own customers over the last six months. Since January 2015 to mid-year we have seen a near 400% increase in the number of dictation files … read more