Olympus ODMS Dictation & Transcription Module Free Trial Download

The latest dictation and transcription module software from Olympus now called ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) comes in the box with the Pro digital dictaphones (DS-7000 and DS-3500) and with the Pro transcription kit (AS-7000).

But if you want to get your hands on the software and have a look at what it does and how to use it then you can thanks to the trial mode offered during the install of the software. Trial mode will let you install either dictation module, transcription module or both standalone on your Windows PC.

The trial install is fully featured, you can use everything that the dictation module and transcription module has to offer. Need to convert a .ds2 file to .dss? dictation module will do that. Need to try out the new transcription software but only have a RS-28 foot pedal? transcription module works with that.

The trial lasts 60 days after which you can either uninstall or if you like it grab a licence key from an authorised Olympus Professional Voice reseller. In Australia that would be us, Dictate Australia.

Click here for full details on the ODMS free trial download. Including the download link, install step by step guide and Olympus part numbers for acquiring a valid licence ley.

Voice Recognition Coming To Apple's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Announced this week at the Apple WWDC 2012 conference in San Francisco, California - Dictation to be built into the next iteration of OS X - Mountain Lion 10.8.

To start with the Dictation feature will be limited to speech recognition only in places that you can type.  Talk your tweets, chat your Facebook status and read aloud your emails.

I am willing to bet at least a $1 that we will see Apple build on this and introduce more voice controlled functionality to the Mac, like app launching, email sending and web browsing. Competition to Naunce's Dragon Dictate or a joining of forces?

Siri introduced the world to the concept of using voice to talk to our devices and have them understand us. Dictation will take that one step further. You can be sure the people at Nuance have got themselves are rather large corner office at One Infinite Loop, Cupertino !

For more thoughts on Dictation in Mountain Lion head to our main blog ..

Voice Detect Feature In The Olympus WS-812 / WS-813

When Olympus released their new range of WS series digital voice recorders early in 2012, perfect for interviews and meetings, they added three new features to the WS-812 and WS-813 digital voice/meeting/interview recorders (not on the WS-811). Those three new features are:

• Voice Detect
• Voice Balancer
• Voice Changer

In our latest post on our main blog we have a closer look at the Voice Detect feature. A feature with alot of promise although in its current evolution may not be as useful as it potentially could be.

Voice Detect when applied to a recorded audio file, like and interview, will remove white space or areas of recorded audio with no voice, thus condensing the audio so that on playback the spoken word will flow. This is a handy feature if you listen back to your audio on the recorder and take notes from your interview or meeting.

Why I say not as potentially useful as it could be is that audio processed with Voice Detect can not be exported in that state from the recorder. When you pull a voice detected audio file from the Olympus WS-812 or WS-813 across to your Mac or PC the audio reverts back to its original state - white space remains. If Olympus can find a way in future releases or in future firmware to allow export of Voice Detected audio we would see alot of very happy audio transcription  typists.

For now though, this feature will still be handy for some. To listen to a sample of audio with and without voice detect recorded on an Olympus WS-812 head over to our main blog - click here.