Olympus DM-5 - Morphing from Digital Voice Recorder to Multi Function Device

The latest digital voice recorder from Olympus, the DM-5, has broken free of its voice recorder only genre and moved into a fully functional digital media device. Sure, like all Olympus recorders you get the best audio recording from the built in high quality stereo mics but with its monster 8Gb of internal memory it opens up the DM-5 to alot more uses.

Music player, file storage, image viewer, audio book player, text files proofreader and DAISY consortium file player the Olympus DM-5 breaks the voice recorder mould. With an emphasis on helping the vision impaired Olympus continue to make their devices as user friendly as possible with features like voice menu prompts.

The zoom mic is also a feature of this digital voice recorder, head over to our main blog for an extreme audio demo of the zoom mic in action recording passengers on a speeding train that could not be physically heard.