Review of the Olympus WS-210S Digital Voice Recorder

The little WS-210S digital voice recorder from Olympus Australia is our top selling digital voice recorder. Used by all kinds of people from students recording lectures, market researchers recording focus groups, journalists recording sound bites and interviews through to amateur family historians recording their relatives voices and stories to keep for generations, the WS-210S is a true all round voice recorder.

Head over to our main blog site for a full review on this digital voice recorder: iDictate Blog

More Recorders Discontinued By Olympus Australia - WS-311M & WS-321M

In another surpise from Olympus Voice Australia, keeping the tradition of not telling anyone that its coming, they discontinued two more voice recorder models yesterday (10th July, 2009), they were the popular WS-311M digital notetaker and the next one up in the range the WS-321M. Both recorders were exactly the same in function and ability, the only difference came with their memory 512Mb for the WS-311M and 1Gb for the WS-321M and their colour. This now leaves just the WS-331M, with its massive 2Gb of memory from the original line up of three recorders.

When you think about it makes sense to drop these two. The WS-311M was very very close in spec and size to the WS-210S recorder, the WS-210S was quite a bit cheaper so maybe a pricing decision casued the WS-311Ms demise. Also the WS-321M, this was really an unneccary recorder, most people either went for the WS-311M or if they needed more memory would jump to the WS-331M so this recorder never really sold well.

In the WS series this now only leaves the WS-110 mono digital voice recorder (great for single speaker and one-on-one interviews), WS-210S stereo digital notetake (interviews, larger meetings, conferences and lectures) and the WS-331M (same as WS-321M but with added class in the piano black).

Olympus Australia Launch New DS-2400 Digital Dictaphone

Olympus Voice Australia today announced that the trusty DS-2300 digital dictaphone has today been discontinued and replaced by the new Olympus DS-2400, available from today in Australia.

The release of the DS-2400 completes the Olympus Australia revamp of their digital dictaphone range after the release of the DS-3400 and DS-5000 ealrier this year ending the life of the DS-3300 and DS-4000.

The DS-2400 is your classic entry level digital dictphone, easy to use, fully featured with amazing audio clarity. The DS-2400 records only in the new DSS Pro digital audio format which produces .ds2 audio files.

Available from today from Dictate Australia

MacSpeech Announce MacSpeech Dictate Legal Version - Voice Recognition for Intel Mac

They say good news always comes in threes and for the good folk over at MacSpeech they have just made their third big announcement in recent weeks.

First we had the upgrade to version 1.5, a major upgrade which introduced a new state of the art voice recognition engine, aswell as some enhancements and bug fixes.

Next we had the launch of MacSpeech Dictate Medical version.

Today we get the news that MacSpeech Dictate Legal is available, boasting a legal dictionary with 30,000 legal words and terms. Enough to keep any legal Mac person happy.

News of when MacSpeech Dictate Legal will be available in Australia is yet to be confirmed but I would guess within two weeks. Once Australian pricing and availability is known I will update this blog.