How To Update The Firmware: Olympus DM-3 / DM-5 Digital Voice Recorders

A new feature that has started to creep into the higher end digital voice recorders of late from Olympus is the ability to update the onboard firmware. This gives the end user, you lot, the ability to keep your recorder up-to-date. Firmware updates fix any minor bugs but more often than not add functionality and improve the performance and ease of use of the recorder.

What is firmware? Firmware is the software which controls your digital voice recorder, think of it as the operating system for your recorder much like Windows is for your PC and OS X for your Mac.

For more details on the latest version of firmware for the Olympus DM-3 and DM-5 recorders, where to get the firmware and a step by step guide on how to install the firmware using a Windows or Mac computer head to our main blog (here's a tip, click on this blogs title and you will go straight there).