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Olympus Dictation App – A crucial part of the Dictation Puzzle

by Wayne Melleon 7 June 2017in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus No comment

Olympus launched the Dictation App / ODDS system in late 2013 to much fanfare – initial write up – NEW Olympus Smartphone App. The response however to the new product wasn’t overwhelming – which was understandable in a traditionally conservative professional market place. Over the past 2 years the solution has really started to gain traction with many clients testing and implementing the system within their businesses.

Robbie Dent of Hopelands Clinic in Durban (our single biggest user of the APP) had the following to say about the offering:

“We have been using the Olympus Dictaphone APP now for a few months. As a busy medical practice of 12 consulting oncologists we cover a large area and do many away clinics. Having the APP on our phones has been a huge time saver for us as we are able to dictate letters/notes immediately without having to carry a Dictaphone with us and then wait for the letters to go through to the typist when we dock the Dictaphone. This means that urgent letters are sent to the typist immediately and this cuts down on the lead time for letters getting out.

We would very highly recommend the Olympus Dictaphone APP.”

As was the case for Hopelands Clinic – one of the biggest benefits of the Dictation App in conjunction with ODDS (Olympus Dictation Delivery Service) is the massive amount of time certain professionals can save in having urgent dictations transcribed. It’s the perfect companion for your tried and tested Olympus Digital Voice Recorder and the integration between the two is seamless.

It’s important to bear in mind that this APP is NOT designed to replace your current handheld Voice Recorder; instead it’s designed to compliment it. This will allow a busy professional who has the need to work out of the office to complete urgent dictations and send them off for transcribing straight away – regardless of where they are.

IF this is something you feel could revolutionize your business please contact us to set up a FREE trial on the system – you wont regret it.

Olympus Dictation for the NHLS

by Wayne Melleon 18 May 2017in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus, Transcription Kits No comment

Building on the huge success the Olympus brand and in particular the Olympus DS-7000 Digital Voice Recorder has enjoyed in the SA medical market over the years the NHLS (National Health Laboratory Service) have recently started rolling out this solution to all Pathology Labs in Gauteng through Olympus’s accredited fulfillment partner OTB (Office Technology Brokers).

Olympus Audio SA has a long history of dealing with pathology labs in Southern Africa, both government and private. A couple years ago the WC Forensic Pathology Services upgraded to the then brand new DS-7000 Digital Recorders and AS-7000 Transcription Kits (Cutting Edge Olympus Tech for Forensic Path Services). Pathcare, the biggest private pathology practices in SA have long trusted Olympus with all their dictation requirements (Pathcare entrusts Olympus with all their dictation requirements).

“The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) is the largest diagnostic pathology service in South Africa with the responsibility of supporting the national and provincial health departments in the delivery of healthcare.

The NHLS provides laboratory and related public health services to over 80% of the population through a national network of laboratories. “

With this kind of workload and responsibility the equipment being used in the labs is essential to providing quick and accurate reports for South Africa’s citizens. The NHLS ultimately decided on the tried and tested Olympus DS-7000 Digital Voice Recorder for the pathologists and the AS-7000 Transcription Kit for the typists. In total close to 80 DS-7000’s and 30 AS-7000’s have been installed in the last 6 months across Gauteng – joining the established Olympus systems in the NHLS labs in the Western Cape and KZN. The current intake of devices has upgraded a combination of old analogue (tape) systems as well as older digital systems.

Both the DS-7000 and AS-7000’s are supplied with the award winning ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) software, which allows for an infinite amount of configuration setups. With the future vision to connect all NHLS labs around the country to one singular system we used the network configuration (single file sharing server which all PC’s point towards). For now each lab is running their own SME file server, this is due to limited bandwidth across the overall NHLS network at this point in time. Once this has been resolved the infrastructure is in place to connect the labs together and share the workload across different locations – which is the ultimate goal.

The DS-7000 / AS-7000 system also allows for work to be created outside of the main workflow and sent in, as if it was created right there in the office– something that is invaluable for users that work from home or out of the office. The Dictation App paired with the FlashAir card makes this all possible.

Olympus Audio S.A are proud to join the “rest” of the Olympus family (microscopes and camera’s) within the NHLS – helping the countries biggest laboratory to continue to provide the critical reports they do on a daily basis.

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NEW Olympus Foot Pedal’s – can now be used with 3rd party software programs

by Wayne Melleon 17 May 2017in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus, Transcription Kits No comment

Want to use an Olympus USB transcription foot pedal with Express Scribe, Windows Media Player or any other audio or video playback software? Now you can with the free Olympus Foot Switch Configuration Tool for both Windows and Mac.

Olympus are well known for their innovation and equipment in the digital voice recording, dictation and transcription world and when it comes to transcription their ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management System) transcription module software for Windows and DSS Player Plus for Mac is the go to for many legal, medical and outsourced transcription providers. Marry the software with the Olympus RS-28H (three pedal) and Olympus RS-31H (four pedal) USB transcription foot controls, both built like a tank, to take a pounding from constant foot stomping you can see why their pedals are often craved by most typists.

Now using the free Olympus Foot Switch Configuration Tool from Olympus these two pedals can be set to either work with your Olympus software OR work with any other audio or video playback software. How? The tool allows you to map hotkeys used by the software to a foot pedal on the RS-28H or RS-31H.

Here is an example, Windows Media Player, the hot key or keyboard short cut to play at normal speed is Ctrl + Shift N : the keyboard shortcut can be applied to any pedal on the RS-28H or RS-31H, letting you now use a footpedal for playback.

The Olympus Foot Switch Configuration Tool is available as a free download for both Windows and Mac from the Olympus website. Download link below:

Foot Switch Configuration Tool

Note: CREDIT for this blog post goes to Dave from Dictate Australia!!

Olympus DS-5500 Giveaway

by Wayne Melleon 10 November 2016in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus, Uncategorized No comment

The Olympus DS-5500 Giveaway is rapidly approaching its completion. We are into our third month of the giveaway now having already given away 2 Olympus DS-5500 Digital Voice Recorders to 2 lucky winners over the past two months.

Our first winner of the fantastic Olympus DS-5500 Digital Voice Recorder was Margaret Bigby from Durban. Margaret received her new Olympus Recorder from our Durban based sales consultant Sabeena Singh. Reports out of our Durban office are that Margaret is enjoying the use of her new Olympus Recorder and is looking to expand on her range of Olympus devices in the coming months which is fantastic news.

Our second lucky winner was Advocate Tertius Steyn from JHB. Our JHB Sales consultants Shaun Naude and Thandi Mncube handed Tertius’s new Olympus DS-5500 over to him. Tertius was extremely happy to win the Olympus Recorder as he had used one at his previous firm and had always loved the Olympus brand and the functionality of the device. Being a previous user of the brand Tertius didnt need any introduction to his new Olympus Recorder and was able to start using it the same day. We would like to wish both our lucky winners many years of high quality recording from their respective Olympus Recorders.

SO – one month to go means one more Olympus DS-5500 Digital Voice Recorder to giveaway. For those of you that haven’t already entered please visit the entry page and complete the entry form – DS-5500 Competition

We expect to draw the last winner in this fantastic Olympus competition a little later on this month! Some pictures of the 2 winners:

Margaret Bigby recieving her Olympus DS-5500

Adv. Tertius Steyn receiving his Olympus DS-5500

Olympus Audio Conference 2016

by Wayne Melleon 9 September 2016in Digital Voice Recorders, General, Olympus, Uncategorized No comment

A couple of months ago the Olympus Audio team got together for our annual conference. Traditionally this has been held in Cape Town with our direct sales teams from across the country attending. This year we felt we needed to do something a little different – so we held a client appreciation conference over 3 days in JHB. The first day was an internal conference with our JHB team – a massive thanks to both Ian and Lee from Olympus UK who begrudgingly came out to sunny South Africa to share their valuable insights on the brand and products with us.

The second day we hosted a dealer appreciation event. The idea was to say thank you to our valued dealer partners for their continued support of the brand. The brief for the day – FUN – so we decided an afternoon of Go-Karting was the way to go!!

Compu-Kart in Edenvale was the host of our afternoon event – what a great venue with very knowledgeable and friendly staff, definitely a venue we would highly recommend and frequent again in the future. We had the use of the full facility for 3 hours and with the rather small amount of people that ended up attending that meant ALOT of “cart” time for each person. As one can imagine, there was plenty banter and lots of fun had by those that attended. For those valued partners that unfortunately couldn’t make it – you certainly missed out BUT we hope to see you all at one of our events in the future.

A couple pictures to bring back some memories:

Our 3 day event closed off with an end user gathering in our JHB office – users + prospective users of the Olympus brand were invited in to discuss the products, their features and how best they could be used in different industries. This proved to be a fruitful process for both the Olympus staff and our clients and its definitely something we will look at doing a little more of in the future.

A big thanks to everyone that was involved as well as those valuable partners and clients for attending – we look forward to hosting you again in the near future.

WIN with OLYMPUS

by Wayne Melleon 2 August 2016in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus No comment

OLYMPUS AUDIO are proud to announce our latest competition – we will be giving away 1 x Olympus DS-5500 Professional Digital Voice Recorder every month for the next 3 months. In order to enter please click here and fill in the contact form: DS-5500 Competition

More info on the device:

The Olympus DS-5500 is the perfect solution for any busy business professional. It offers you all the features and accessories at an affordable price.

256 bit file encryption with DSS Pro Format
Digital Voice Recorder in full metal body
Dedicated easy docking station
Flexible dictation tagging (with DSS Pro)
Geared for Dragon Naturally Speaking
Device lock by PIN code
Editing Functions(overwrite/insert/delete)
4GB MicroSD Card + SD Card Slot

For further info on the device or the competition please contact Maynards Office Technology (PTY) Ltd:

Phone: 0860 00 1922

Email: sales@maynards.co.za

The NEW Olympus LS Pocket Series

by Wayne Melleon 19 July 2016in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus, Uncategorized No comment

No matter if you are recording the jam sessions of a band, the sounds of nature or an interview, the Olympus LS-P1 and LS-P2 will deliver excellent quality results in virtually any situation. Both models are part of the new Olympus LS Pocket Series uniting superb performance with a compact, stylish design in an extremely robust metal body. Premium directional microphone systems ensure the best quality recordings in better-than-CD Linear PCM 96kHZ/24bit format. The LS-P2 even incorporates a TRESMIC, 3-microphone system for expanded frequency response and also allows the results to be sent to external speakers via Bluetooth. In addition, the LS-P2 includes a convenient Normalization function enabling the levels of recorded files to be subsequently boosted to the optimal distortion-free maximum volume – without the need for any PC or additional software. Both the Olympus LS-P1 and LS-P2 will be available in South Africa in August 2016.

For more details on the devices see below:

Video: Olympus LS Pocket

Web: Olympus LS-P2

The NEW Olympus DM-7 – Operated by your voice

by Wayne Melleon 17 July 2014in Digital Voice Recorders, General, Olympus No comment

The new Olympus DM-7 has just landed in South Africa and is now available through Maynards Office Technology and our selected V.A.Rs around the country. It takes over from the out going Olympus DM-5 as the range topping meeting machine but it has so much more to offer than that. As is the case with the DM-901 which we launched earlier this year the new DM-7 is fully integrated with WiFi and can be operated via the same Olympus Audio Controller App available via the App Store (Apple) or the Play Store (Android).

As mentioned above the DM-7 is more than just a voice recorder with WiFi capability, it comes equipped with full ASSISTIVE Aids designed to help users that are visually impaired. The assistive aids consist of Voice Command (As the name suggests, you can navigate through the device menu by simple issuing it with a voice command), Text Speech (download a text document onto the device and let it read it back to you, it will also read out the menu options on the device so you can operate it simple by touch) and Daisy Compatible (Supports Daisy Audio Book content in Daisy 2.0 / 2.02).

This makes the DM-7 an extremely versatile device, it will do a great job of recording your boardroom meetings while being remotely operated by your own smartphone (via the controller app) and then allowing you to immediately upload that recording to a DropBox account for quick and easy file sharing. Not only that, it can be fully operated by people that are visually impaired with zero loss in functionality making it a powerful tool for those who suffer with what can be an extremely debilitating disability in business.

For further details on this fantastic new Olympus recorder please contact your nearest Maynards branch.

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Olympus Sales Conference – 2014

by Wayne Melleon 6 June 2014in General, Olympus 2 comments

This past week the Olympus crew from around the country got together for our annual Sales Conference. This event has now become a regular on our yearly schedule and once again it didn’t disappoint. As was the case last year we were fortunate enough to have Chris Baugh from Olympus Europe and Ian Tolley from Olympus UK attend the event. Their incite into the Olympus brand from a sales and marketing point of view is invaluable to our team and we would like to extend a massive thank you to them for flying half way around the world to be with us.

The venue for the event was Theewaterskloof Country Estate, the same venue as last year. Unfortunately the Cape Winter Weather just didn’t play its part this year which meant the vast majority of our time was spent indoors with the heater on. From a work point of view we got through some extremely valuable sessions on Marketing, New Products and Support which i know was extremely informative for everyone that attended. In typical South African fashion we even braved the icy wind and rain to complete the braai’s on both evenings (although most of this was done by our MD Paul with the help of our European visitors who didn’t think it was that cold at all).

In all it was an extremely valuable 3 days for all that attended. We have a long list of points to action in the coming weeks to make sure what we discussed becomes a reality but that’s what makes it exciting. Thanks once again to everyone that put it together and to those that attended. Here are some pic’s to illustrate the event:

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Africa Health Expo – 2014
by Wayne Melleon 5 June 2014in General, Olympus No comment
Olympus Audio SA recently exhibited at the 2014 Africa Health Exhibition at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Africa Health is one of the biggest medical conventions in Africa and the 2014 exhibition attracted over 450 exhibitors from 35 nations, including 17 different country pavilions from all over the world.

The Olympus Audio stand was well attended throughout the 3 exhibition days. The overall aim was to increase exposure for the Olympus Audio brand within the medical circles and we certainly feel that was extremely successful. We were able to gather a lot of information, leads as well as start up what could become some important relationships with industry leaders in the medical IT sector.

Here are some pictures of the event and our stand:

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