Olympus Australia Leads The Worldwide Announcement - New DS-7000 Pro Digital Dictaphone

On a grey, wet Sydney day a small group of Olympus Australia's Pro audio dealers gathered in a harbourside restaurant to listen to an announcement from the Olympus Imaging MD. The secrecy surrounding the launch can only be compared to an Apple announcement, no matter how much probing of the Olympus Sydney team none would spill the beans, even a few minutes before the event.

I personally had done some Googling a few days before to try and get a hint of what was coming. I thought the DS-5000 may be replaced so had been looking, logically, for any DS-6000 rumours - none. Olympus threw me off the scent by going DS-7000.

So announced today is the new flagship pro digital dictaphone the DS-7000 alongside two other new recorders in the Pro dictation range the DS-3500 and DS-2500. All three will replace the current product line which consists of the DS-5000/DS-3400/DS-2400.

Also announced today a new professional digital transcription kit known as the AS-7000. Here we seen an all new kit: new transcription software going from DSS Player Pro R5 to release 6 now called ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System); new four pedal transcription foot switch called the RS31; new under-the-chin transcription headset called the E62.

With a slightly redesigned shell, improved microphone and big colour TFT display (borrowed from the LS series) Olympus continue to stride forward as the leaders in digital dictation both on the Windows and the Mac platform.

To download todays Olympus Australia press releases and the new Olympus Dictation Product Brochure head to our main blog site (click the title above).