Buying A Pro Olympus Digital Dictation Recorder - Look For The Pro Dealer

In Australia resellers of the Olympus Pro range of digital dictation voice recorders (DS-5000/DS-3400/DS-2400) and transcription kits (AS-5000/AS-2400) are selected by Olympus themselves. There are strict guidelines as to who can become an Olympus Pro Dictation reseller and currently there are just over thirty in Australia.

However, a number of websites are springing up selling the Pro range of Olympus recorders from companies who are not Pro resellers are are sourcing their stock from overseas, likely the US where the strong Australian dollar makes US purchases more favourable. So why should you buy from an official Olympus Australia Pro reseller? In our latest blog post we look at this question and list the Pro resellers in Australia. Click the blog title above to go direct to the article.

New Olympus DirectRec Series II In Australia

Out with the old and in with the new.

Old being the Directrec series I USB hand held dictation mics (DR-1000 and DR-2000) and the new being the Directrec Series II USB hand held dictation mics (DR-2100, DR-2200, DR-2300).

This isn't your standard replace for the sake of replacing either. The Series II are worth taking some time to have a look at. They have been ergonomically re-designed so fits in your hand alot more comfy which is a big deal when you consider the mileage these USB connected mics get.

Often used as an alternative to the traditional tape or digital dictation recorders, the Directrec in conjunction with the Olympus DSS Player Pro R5 dictation module software gives you a powerful dictating tool in your hand which records directly to your PC. All the new DR series come with a slide switch for easy dictation functions such as rewind/review and insert/over write. Plus the DR-2200 and DR-2300 also have a trackball for control of your computers mouse from the hand held mic saving you time swapping between mouse and mic.

But the big news with these new hand helds is their mics. Vastly improved over the older DR series the high quality mics in the DR-2100/DR-2200/DR-2300 have been certified as highly accurate with Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

The link with DNS is what is going to make these little units very popular in legal and medical practices all over the world.

Dictate Australia - Now Suppliers Of LiveScribe Echo SmartPens

Yes we are back selling the LiveScribe range of Echo SmartPens - these handy little gadgets can record your meeting, lecture or conference while you hand write notes. Not only that, they will link the audio to what you write. Simply tap any location of your text in your hand written notes and the audio plays back from the moment it was written, yes that is technology magic at its best.

We sold the original LiveScribe Pulse SmartPens when they first arrived in Australia, now we are back selling the full range of their latest digital voice recorder pen, the Echo.

Available now on our new evolving website with free delivery across Australia. Click here to have a peek at the 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb pen packages.

LS-3 - Latest PCM Music Recorder From Olympus Australia

With the discontinue of the LS-10 and LS-11 digital PCM music recorders earlier in 2011 there was an obvious gap in the Olympus Australia digital recorder range for music lovers.

That gap has now been fully filled by the awesome new Olympus LS-3 digital PCM music recorder. Just released into Australia the LS-3 comes with a couple of very cool new features.

First of which is the Tresmic microphone system. Secreted below the mic grills of the LS-3 are three seperate mics. The center mic is omnidirectional which enhances lower frequencies. Then two mics sits either side of the center mic which are high-performance directional mics. The center mic can be turned on or off, adjusting the frequency response.

The second very neat feature is a pre-record function. This is very clever, how many times have you gone to record something and not quite hit the record button in time? With pre-record on the LS-3 keeps a two second buffer of audio, as soon as you hit record the previous two seconds are then added to the recording making sure you never miss that moment again.

Complete with 4Gb of on board memory and a microSD expansion slot the LS-3 is available from Dictate Australia and has an RRP of $299 incl. GST

Express Scribe Now .ds2 Compatible

As of version 5.30 Express Scribe (Windows) can now load and play DSS Pro audio files, better known as .ds2 files, from both Olympus and Philips recorders.

A point of great angst for nearly two years now with the fleet of transcriptionists worldwide who dedicate their lives to audio typing using Express Scribe, the handy free software from NCH that will play just about every audio format known to man has finally overcome its greatest hurdle, the .ds2 file.

Prior to this update typists who received a .ds2 audio file had a few options:

• Ask the sender to convert to .dss or other compatible format
• Upgrade their own transcription software to a paid Olympus kit
• Buy software to convert the audio for them

So what are you waiting for, head over to http://www.nch.com.au/scribe and get the latest version and become .ds2 compatible. (Not yet Mac, just the Windows people).

Olypmus LS-20M Coming To Australia Any Day Now

One device we have had our eye on for some months now is the Olympus LS-20M which has been hugely popular over in the US. Why are we getting excited about this unit? Well it marks the start of a cross over between Olympus Imaging and their impressive camera knowledge and Olympus Voice with their just as impressive voice recording skills.

Squish the two together and you come up with the LS-20M, HD 1080p video mixed with PCM audio and you are onto a winner.
Olympus Imaging quietly snuck this into the latest Australian Olympus reseller price list released this morning (18th August 2011) maybe thinking nobody would notice. Perfect timing too with Father Day coming, Christmas on the horizon and on a personal note my birthday next week !
The Olympus LS-20M has an RRP of $449 incl. GST in Australia.

Dropbox - The Easy Free Way To Transfer Large Audio Files

Audio files, especially from the non professional high quality digital notetakers, are very large in size, too large to email. This is not a bad thing, the audio they are recording is after all very high quality, especially if you are using a PCM recorder generating uncompressed WAV files. So how do you easily get these audio files to colleagues or to an outsourced transcription service? The answer, Dropbox.

Dropbox has been around for a couple of years and has redefined the way we share and backup files. Dropbox uses a mix of both local storage (a directory or folder on your Mac or PC) and cloud storage, syncing whatever you drop in your Dropbox folder with the cloud.

Certain folders or even files can be shared with others making it an ideal tool for sharing your large audio files with select people. head over to our main blog to read more ... oh yeah, Dropbox is FREE for 2Gb of cloud storage.