Philips Speechlive Australia - Cloud Dictation & Transcription Solution for Legal/Medical Practices

Philips Speechlive Australia

What is Philips Speechlive?

Philips Speechlive is a digital dictation and transcription solution hosted in the cloud. Philips Dictation Australia host the solution in Australian datacentres, your confidential client or patient audio remains in-country.

How does Philips Speechlive work?

Philips Speechlive allows dictation audio to be quickly shared to one or many transcription typists, located in the office, working from home, working from another state or from anywhere in the world. 

No software to install, just use any web browser on Mac or Windows

Dictation audio can be transcribed via a web browser on any internet-connected Windows PC or Mac. No expense software to licence or install locally making the solution versatile in the work from anywhere era.

The status of dictation is reflected in the Philips Speechlive web interface. Authors can see when their audio is being transcribed and when it is finished. Audio can be tagged with a priority marker and additional information. You can even attach images along with the dictation.

Dictate Audio Multiple Ways

With Philips SPeechlive you have four options that you can mix and match to suit your needs.

1. Physical dictaphone. Use any make or model of digital dictaphone to record your dictation. Use a Philips or even an Olympus dictaphone. No software required, just upload the audio from the digital voice recorder to Philips Speechlive or automate the process using the free Philips Speechlive Upload Client.

2. Free Philips Speechlive app for smartphones. Dictate from anywhere at any time on the device that never leaves your side your iPhone.

3. Dictate directly into Philips Speechlive via a browser on a Mac or Windows PC.

Our video below shows digital dictation in action using the above methods:

What about Speech or Voice Recognition?

Philips Speechlive have that covered also. When you send your audio to Philips Speechlive you can select a voice-to-text option which will automatically and quickly convert your spoken audio to text. This is a perfect option for urgent dictation, let automation do the hard work and then all your typist needs to do is proofread and format.

My Transcription Typist is Away Can Philips Speechlive Help?

Yes it can. Philips own their own transcription typing pool. Real people, real typists. Just like speech-to-text the Philips Transcription Service is an option when you upload your audio to Philips Speechlive.

If you are interested in looking at Philips Speechlive for your business or practice please reach out to us. We would be happy to advise on the best setup for your business. There is also a free 30-day trial all setup and configured for you by us, Dictate Australia - Philips Speechlive

Buy a New WifI Enabled Olympus DS-9500 Digital Dictaphone - Get $150 Cash Back

This has been a promotion that Olympus Australia run most years. Simply trade in your old dictaphone or digital voice recorder when you buy the latest Olympus digital dictaphone and get cash back.
The Olympus DS-9500 dictaphone is the latest top end digital dictaphone. It boasts a large colour display, the usual slick slide switch for audio record, play, rewind and review and wifi connectivity.
Wifi is a handy new feature which allows the handheld dictaphone to email audio directly from a wifi connected device to yourself or your typist. Alternatively, if you are on your office or practice wifi audio can be sent back to your PC over wifi and automatically sent to your typists or fed into Dragon. With WiFi you do not always have to return to your computer to dock the dictaphone, your dictations can be sent from anywhere at anytime with the wifi options.
Until October 31st 2019, you can trade in any brand of voice recorder and in any condition when you buy a new Olympus DS 9500 - for that Olympus will give you a $150 pre-paid Visa card. Optionally you can go for the next model down, the DS-9000 and receive $75 cash back when you trade in.

Olympus DS-9500 Released In Australia With Updated ODMS R7 Dictation Module for Windows 10

New Olympus DS-9500 launched in Australia, professional digital dictaphone for both dictation and meeting/interview recording. Replacing the ageing DS-7000 the new DS9500 comes with a new sleeker casing, the usual docking station and Windows 10 and MacOS compatibility.

Also announced was a major release for ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) software for Windows 10, both dictation module and transcription module taking the software from release ODMS R6 to release 7 or ODMS R7.

The new Olympus Australia DS-9500 will also be accompanied by a new professional transcription kit, the AS-9000 (which replaces the AS-7000) and will come with the new ODMS R7 transcription module software for Windows 10, new redesigned transcription headset and transcription foot pedal.

Mac users, no information yet on an update for the DSS Player Plus v7 software for Mac yet, although we are sure something will happen in this space in 2018.

Like all Olympus digital voice recorders, the new Olympus DS-9500 produces high-quality audio that can also be used with Dragon for Windows or Dragon for Mac voice recognition software from Nuance.

The Olympus DS9500 records in DSS Pro (.ds2) and older DSS (.dss) audio formats. New though to the top of the range dictaphone is recording in mp3 or PCM wav meaning the recorder can also be used for meeting/interview/conference recording, a good move by Olympus and reduces the pro dictation range down from three recorders (DS-7000 / DS-3500 / DS-2500) to just the one new Olympus Australia DS-9500.

New with the Olympus DS-9500 is wifi connectivity, a new way to send files along with the usual USB connection via the supplied dock.

The new Olympus DS-9500 is available from Dictate Australia - dictate.com.au

Olympus Dictation App - Record and Send Encrypted .ds2 Audio From Your Smartphone - Dictate Anytime Anywhere

How can I encrypt the confidential audio I record on my iPhone?

The .m4a files my iPhone records are too big to email, what can I do?

I'm a lawyer/doctor/surgeon what app can I use for dictation?

Dictation and voice recording on smartphones is nothing new. Just take a look at iTunes or Google Play and there are hundreds, from free to very expensive. But the vast majority do not tick all the boxes when you ask the serious questions of your app.

Encryption is probably the biggest issue. If you record confidential audio then you MUST ensure that the audio is encrypted between the device and the recipient of your audio, usually your transcription typist or typing pool.

File size usually comes next. You are a busy professional, you don't have time to wait for your dictation to send across the cellular network or wifi, you need smaller highly compressed yet still high quality audio files.

Digital Speech Standard Pro (or .ds2 audio files) have been designed to be small, highly compressed and can be encrypted. The .ds2 audio file format is used by the worlds leaders in dictation; Olympus, Philips and Grundig.

Olympus have an iPhone and Android app called Olympus Dictation which ticks all of the above when you combine the app with an Olympus Dictation Delivery Service (ODDS) Subscription.

Whether you are based in the US, UK, Australia or anywhere the world the team at Dictate can help setup you up on a FREE 60 day trial of Olympus ODDS Dictation App for as many users as you need.

Office and Practice Managers, enabled your dictation users to dictate anywhere at anytime securely on their smartphone, request a free 60 day trial for as many devices as you need from Dictate.

New Olympus DM-901 Arrives In Australia - First Business Digital Voice Recorder Controlled via WiFi Smartphone App

Olympus Imaging Australia recently made some changes to the DM series of digital voice recorders in Australia. The DM series are the business grade meeting/interview/focus group/boardroom digital voice recorders. Out goes the ever popular DM-3 replaced by the new Olympus DM-901.

As usual Olympus tweak things here and there with every update. Slightly better mics (hard to improve as they are already amazing), bigger brighter colour screen, more controls with the zoom mic etc etc. But one big addition this time, built in WiFi. Yep, the little recorder has its own wifi connection.

With the free Olympus Audio Controller app for iPhone, Android and even tablets you can control the start/stop/pause recording on the DM-901 all from your touch screen device. When your recording has finished you can also download the audio to your smart device and playback and also opt to flick the audio to Dropbox.

More info on our main blog site: dictat.es/dm901-blog

How Do You Configure Send to Server in the Olympus Dictation App for iPhone and Android?

The new Olympus Dictation App recently released in iTunes and on Google Play lets you record your voice, like a digital voice recorder, and send it via email. But if you buy a 12 month subscription to ODDS - Olympus Dictation Delivery Service you can also send via Olympus' new cloud file transfer service known as the dictation portal.

In the app, which is free and can be used free with some limitations, there is no mention of the ODDS subscription license. In fact the only clue, although not really a clue at all more a frustration is what do you enter into the "Send to Server" configuration in the app.

Luckily our main blog has a full run down on the differences between the free version of Olympus Dictation and a version with a licensed ODDS subscription. Click the title link to read moe.

Olympus Release Firmware v1.20 for Pro Digital Voice Recorders DS-7000 & DS-3500 - FlashAir Support

Olympus this week launched their Olympus Dictation app on the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and Google Market for Android phones. The app has the ability, when you have a paid subscription, to receive audio recorded on an Olympus DS-7000 or DS-3500 loaded with a Toshiba FlashAir SDHC wireless enabled memory card.

The latest firmware to be released, v1.20, adds the required support for the FlashAir card to the DS-7000 and DS-3500.

Also of note, this is the first ever pro digital dictaphone firmware release from Olympus that can be applied to your device from a Mac. Traditionally the firmware updates could only be applied from a Windows PC.