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
Announced 4th April by Olympus Australia (official press release) the new professional digital dictaphone the Olympus DS-9500 will be available later this month from Dictate Australia – dictate.com.au This will replace the very popular DS-7000 model which was launched almost five years ago to the day back in April 2012. Highlights: Olympus DS-9500 will come with … read more
** This post was originally written in 2017. ** UPDATE September 2020: Microsoft release the Transcribe feature in Word online for Mac and PC, here is the post: dictat.es/word-transcribe Voice recognition or voice-to-text isn’t anything new, it has been around for years made by a company called Nuance in the form of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Recently … read more
Olympus have just released worldwide a new set of RecMic (hand held, USB connected) microphones for use with Dragon’s speech recognition software. Of the five models released worldwide only these three will be available in Australia: Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch + Clickable Trackball + 4 Programmable Buttons Olympus RM-4100S – Optical Slide Switch … read more
Want to use an Olympus USB transcription foot pedal with Express Scribe, Windows Media Player or any other audio or video playback software? Now you can with the free Olympus Foot Switch Configuration Tool for both Windows and Mac. Olympus are well known for their innovation and equipment in the digital voice recording, dictation and … read more
Olympus Australia just released another patch for their ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) dictation and transcription module software. The latest patch, known as Patch0016 contains a number of undisclosed bug fixes and minor improvements. It is recommended for all users of Olympus ODMS, both dictation and transcription module, to apply this patch. Recently there have … 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
##UPDATE April 2017## A newer patch has been released for ODMS R6, Patch 0016 .. click this link for details dictat.es/Patch0016 Olympus recently released a patch for their ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) software for Microsoft Windows which added support for Microsoft Office 2016 and also fixed a couple of minor issues with Office 365 … read more