Olympus DM-450 & DM-550 Discontinued In Australia

This week will see the end of the highly popular Olympus DM-450 and DM-550 recorders in Australia. They will be replaced by the new Olympus DM-3, the smaller brother of the already available DM-5.

The DM-450 in particular was the most popular digital voice recorder we had ever sold from the Olympus range and rightly so. It was a superb recorder in so many ways, superb audio pickup is a given with all Olympus recorders but the DM-450 was something special.

The first DM-3's will arrive in Australia at the end of this week (24th June, 2011) and we will get our hands on one straight away and run it through its paces. Blog review and photos will be posted soon after ... watch this space.

Dear Santa - Olympus LS-20M Please !

About to launch in the US is the new Olympus LS-20M HD video camera and digital PCM recorder combo.

A new venture for Olympus taking their extensive imaging knowledge and combining it with their world class digital recording technology to come up with the beast known as the LS-20M.

Set to debut for a mere US$299 in June 2011 across America there are no plans as yet to see this device in Australia, but I have my fingers, toes and arms crossed hoping it will be here for Christmas. This will be the present from me, to me !!

Olympus Voice Announce DM-3 For Australia

Olympus this week advised its Gold Aussie resellers to expect a new recorder in their notetaker range, the DM-3.

Expected in June/July 2011 the DM-3 will join the already available DM-5 in the top tier of digital notetakers for recording meetings, interviews, conferences and focus groups.

To make room for the large colour screen DM-3 we will see the end of the hugely popular DM-450 and DM-550 recorders, some of the best recorders ever to come out of Olympus in my opinion. The DM-3 along with the DM-5 raise the bar just that little bit more, great work Olympus.

Free Olympus Camera When You Buy A DS-5000 / AS-5000 Bundle

In a first by Olympus Australia and I would guess the first of many we see a voice product linked with an imaging product. Testing the waters Olympus have started their first combined promo by offering a free Olympus FE-4030 digital camera if you buy a bundle of one Olympus DS-5000 (or DS-5000iD) Pro digital dictaphone and one Olympus AS-5000 Pro digital transcription kit.

This promo is only available from official Olympus Australia Pro dealers and only while stocks last so make sure you call ahead to check that camera stock is available.

Olympus DSS Player Pro R5.0.12 Is Released

A small bug fix release appeared in my DSS Player Pro today bumping the release from version R5.0.11 to R.5.0.12

The new release addresses a couple of bugs and implements some additional functionality for administrators. The release is for Windows users of DSS Player Pro and applies to both the dictation and transcription modules.

For full details on the release notes and how to grab the latest version please click to our main blog.

Click - Olympus DSS Player Pro R5.0.12 Is Released

Where Is That Cable? - Olympus DS-5000 Replacement Parts

By design the Olympus DS-5000 digital dictaphone is a portable device. Designed to be used in the office yes but also quite happy travelling with you on business or at home working out of hours or weekends. So it makes sense that when you rush to leave the office you grab your DS-5000 but forget a cable, the power, the dock, its case. Worse still, you do remember to take the cable, the dock, the power and the case but lose one on the way.

Well stress no more. In this blog post we look at all the parts included with the DS-5000 and detail what they are used for, their Olympus part number and what you can expect to pay (in Australian dollars).

So if you need an extra power supply or your rechargeable battery pack is growing old here you will find their details.

Australia Legal Vocab for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Professionlal Released By Nuance

Nuance Australia this week released the legal Australian edition vocabulary. Whats that then? Well a blob of legal terms specifically for the Australian legal market.

It is an add-on to Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Professional and will give legal users a much higher accuracy rate when dictating legal terms. The benefit is muss less time training your commonly used legal lingo.

Out now as a stand alone install if you have DNS 11 Pro already installed or you can buy a bundle of DNS 11 Pro plus the legal pack.