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
SpeechExec v10 End-of-Support – Upgrade to Philips SpeechExec Pro v11 or SpeechLive Philips Dictation Australia has just announced that version v10 of their popular SpeechExec dictation and transcription software for Windows will go End-of-Support on 20th November 2020. What does end-of-support mean? This means that there will be no more updates released for SpeechExec v10 … read more
Philips Dictation has this month announced a couple of enhancement to their SpeechLive Australian hosted cloud dictation and transcription system. SpeechLive Email Notifications for Typists First up for the SpeechLive typists you will now receive a bit more detail in your email when you are notified of new dictations uploaded to SpeechLive. Rather than just … read more
The onslaught of regular firmware updates for the Olympus DS-9500 wifi enabled digital dictaphones continues with this firmware release v1.150 issued today. The regularity of the firmware updates is a good thing, it shows that Olympus is listening to feedback from the global user community and dealers and shows their dedication to continually improve the … 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 Here is the list: Olympus is now called OM System ODMS R7 from Olympus has been superseded by ODMS R8 from OM System ODMS now stands for OM System Dictation Management System Olympus ODDS (cloud based dictation workflow solution … read more
Speech Recognition using your iPhone or Android – Philips SpeechLive Voice recognition, the ability for technology to convert spoken word to text, has been on most people who dictate letters and notes for a living’s list to look at. Why? Likely because either a) they pay a lot for transcription, either indirectly tying up a … read more
A new update for the Olympus Dictation Management Systems (ODMS) Release 7 (R7) for Windows has been released taking the latest version to 7.3.2 – the free update for R7 licence holders includes both updates and bug fixes. Here is a summary of what’s new in this update; The latest version of ODMS R7 can … read more
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