MacSpeech Dictate Medical Version - Australian Pricing And Bundles

With the announcement last week of a new medical version of MacSpeech Dictate we have been waiting for pricing, availability and bundle details for us here in Australia. Those details have just been released by the Australian distributor.

We can expect to get two bundles of MacSpeech Dictate Medical with a choice of either the Parrott VXI TalkPro USB headset and mic or the Revolabs xTag wireless mic.

Stock of MacSpeech Dictate Medical is expected in Australia next week so will be shipping nationally in early July. We at Dictate Australia have sold the very first copy of MacSpeech Dictate Medical which will head off to a doctor in Victoria very shortly.

For a run down on the Australian pricing and upgrade pricing for people with standard MacSpeech Dictate (both version 1.3 and 1.5) click on this entries heading above or head direct to idictate.com.au

MacSpeech Dictate Announce Medical Version - Voice Recognition For Mac

Hot on the heals of their latest (paid) upgrade to version 1.5 MacSpeech have just announced (Friday 19th June, 2009) a Medical version of their voice recognition software for Intel Macs, called ... wait for it ... MacSpeech Dictate Medical !

It will be available as a stand alone package or if you already own MacSpeech Dictate a cross grade licence will be available.

No details yet on availability or pricing in Australia, as soon as we know we will update.

Olympus DS30 & DS-40 Discontinued in Australia

Some news out of Olympus Australia this week is that the popular large meeting and focus group digital voice recorder the DS-30 has been discontinued. The next model up the DS-40 will also suffer the same fate in the next week or two.

My suspicion is that both these models will be replaced by a single new recorder, the Olympus DS-55 which is yet to be seen in Australia and as yet no pricing is available for this model.

As the DS-50 was recently dumped and replaced by the DS-65 it looks to me that it is not likely that we will see the DS-75 model available across Europe. This make sense, the three model choice of the DS-30, DS-40 and DS-50 was a bit of overkill where two models would do.

As soon as we receive news on the DS-55, its availability and Australian pricing we will update the blog with the info. In the mean time, feast your eyes on this stunning silver model and wipe a tear for the legendary DS-30.

Spotted - New Olympus DS-3400 In Australia

The latest recorder from Olympus Australia has just arrived in the country with an expected release nationally next week. The DS-3400 fits with the new digital dictaphone image Olympus are adopting, the sleek black and chrome look, this digital voice recorder looks stunning.

News on pricing for the new DS-3400, which seems to be replacing the DS-3300 phased out earlier this year, is not available yet. As soon as it is I will update this post.

The recorder will come with a removeable 1Gb SD card and the DSS Dictation Pro v5 software supporting the new .ds2 (DSS Player Pro) audio format.