Going Digital - Compare The Olympus Dictaphones

Olympus, the leaders in digital voice in Australia and most other parts of the world, have three digital dictaphones in their Pro and advanced range of digital voice recorders. Typically used by single speakers (people who dictate on their own) to record letters, notes etc these are popular in the medical and legal sectors.

Digital dictaphones differ from digital notetakers in that they can stop and start audio, emulating the old style tape recorders - whereas notetakers are designed to record with a defined start and stop, e.g. when recording interviews, meetings, lectures and focus groups.

In the Olympus range are three digital dictaphones - DS-2400, DS-3400 and DS-5000. In our latest blog post we compare these three in detail and explain the differences between each. We also offer some advice for people looking to upgrade from analogue tape dictaphones to digital.

In Australia these digital dictaphones are only available from authorised Olympus Pro dealers, look for this logo when shopping in Australia. Dictate Australia ( www.dictate.com.au ) is an Olympus Gold Pro Dealer.

Changing from analogue tape dictaphones to digital - some things you should know

If you have been using a tape dictaphone recorder for a few years, maybe a micro cassette or even a mini cassette the thought of changing and going digital my worry you. After all, the trusty cassette has been around for years why would you ever need to go digital?

Well in our latest blog we look at the top three digital dictaphones from Olympus and some compelling reasons as to why digital is not just better but is way ahead of your trusty tape dictaphone. The fact that analogue tape is being phased out, not just by Olympus but also the other players in the voice market should be reason enough to go digital. Rather than wait until forced to do so when your analogue dictaphone and its moving parts finally give up and can not be replaced.

We look at the full range of professional digital dictaphones from the DS-2400 to the DS-3400 and up to the top of the range DS-5000 and its more secure partner the DS-5000iD. We look at the differences between the three, most people are interested to read that the recording quality is exactly the same with all three recorders, its the features that beef up the recorders as you move up the chain.

MacSpeech Scribe - The Missing Link For Voice Recognition On Intel Mac

For any Apple fan the annual MacWorld expo is always an interesting time of year with new gadgets and gizmos shown to the world to make our Mac, iPhone, iPod (and next year iPad) experience better than it already is.

This year the 2010 expo has significance for the digital voice world with MacSpeech launching their new software product MacSpeech Scribe, which for the first time, lets Mac users (with Snow Leopard) record their voice into a certified digital voice recorder for later playback into MacSpeech Scribe which will then transcribe the audio for you.

Using the Dragon voice recognition technology already in action in their MacSpeech Dictate product, MacSpeech Scribe accurately and very quickly transcribes single speaker audio.

More on our main blog site : idictate.com.au