In what we thought was a surprise move Nuance announced this week that it will be canning its macOS voice recognition software Dragon for Mac. It was a surprise to us as the latest version Dragon for Mac v6 was finally at a good state with really good live voice recognition and just a good … read more
Hot on the heels of the release of their new flagship pro digital dictation handheld recorder, the Olympus DS-9500, Olympus have released the first firmware update for the unit, taking its firmware version to v1.10 Unfortunately for MacOS users the firmware can only be applied from a Windows PC, so you will need to find … read more
The latest Olympus DS-9500 professional digital dictaphone comes in a box and is know as a dictation kit, all you need to digitally dictate your letters and notes. But what if you lose something from your kit? Well the good news is that every part, except the handheld dictaphone itself, is replaceable. Here is a … read more
Olympus Dictation Management System or ODMS Release 7 is the latest software to be shipped with the Professional Olympus digital dictaphones (DS-9500) and digital transcription kit (AS-9000). ODMS R7 replaces the well known ODMS R6 and DSS Player Pro R5 series dictation/transcription module software. Note: if you have ODMS R6 or DSS Player Pro R5 installed you … 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
One of the most anticipated features of the new Olympus DS-9500 professional digital dictaphone is it’s ability to connect to wifi networks. This opens up the device to be used as a mini-PC if you like and can be configured to email your .ds2 digital dictation files directly from the DS-9500 itself to your office, … read more
We have been an online business in Australia since 1998, during that time we have accepted both credit cards and bank transfer as our payment methods, nothing new there. Today we enabled another payment method, crypto currency, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum. Why? Well crypto currency is something we have been keeping an eye on for … read more
Recently released in the Olympus LS Series (recorders typically aimed at music and nature sound recording) is the Olympus LS-P4 … what’s so different about this little LS recorder I hear you say, well its the first Olympus recorder to record in FLAC. Olympus clearly going after the YouTube generation of videographers with this model, … read more