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4 Reasons to Use a Digital Recorder Instead of a Smartphone

by Wayne Melleon 4 July 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus No comment

You can use a smartphone to take a photograph, receive a telephone call, or dictate a letter. A smartphone is a jack-of-all-trades, but master of none if you require a high-quality image, voice transmission, or recording for a client or a colleague. A smartphone function, such as voice recording, will pale in comparison to a dedicated hardware device with firmware designed to record and edit a voice record, such as the Olympus DS-7000 Digital Voice Recorder.

The DS-7000 has been designed to operate solely as a professional voice recorder; the device has been designed from the ground up with one goal

Olympus DS-5000 + AS-5000 now officially discontinued in S.A

by Wayne Melleon 25 June 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus, Transcription Kits One comment

Olympus announced towards the end of 2012 that the previous range topping DS-5000 Digital Voice Recorder and the accompanying AS-5000 Transcription Kit were due to be discontinued. Lucky for us and our South African clients we have managed to hang onto stock of those items for a few months longer but that has now come to an end. Our current stock levels on both the DS-5000 and the AS-5000 are now depleted and hence we announce the discontinuation of both those products in the South African marketplace.

The great news for consumers is that the new and improved replacement models for

Olympus releases new update for ODMS software – R6.2.0

by Wayne Melleon 19 June 2013in General No comment

Olympus has just released the latest update for their groundbreaking digital dictation software ODMS. This update will take users from R6.1.1 to R.6.2.0.

Official changes in ODMS R6.2.0 are as follows:

RS32 (Hand Controller) is supported.
Direct upgrade from DSSPlayer Pro R4 to ODMS is supported. – DSS Player Pro R4.10.4 is only supported. – Both Standalone system and Workgroup system are supported. – Settings in R4 will automatically migrate to ODMS. – Operating systems supported after upgrade will comply with what ODMS supports. – ODMS license is required.
“Adaptation”, function for voice recognition can be executed on PCs on which Text corrections has

Olympus partners AfricaClockwise on epic journey around Africa!!

by Wayne Melleon 3 June 2013in General, Olympus 2 comments

Olympus Audio SA is excited to announce they have sponsored Mark Sampson of AfricaClockwise an Olympus LS-100 Digital Voice Recorder and ME-15 tie clip microphone to be used on his epic upcoming journey around Africa. Mark and his family will be traveling around the circumference of the continent from June 2013 to September 2015 in their big green truck, running on used cooking oil and solar power on a mission to see if Africa can show the rest of the world how to deal with climate change.
“Africa Clockwise is also a quest to discover whether it is possible for

Olympus Pro Dictation Devices Awarded 6 Dragons by Nuance

by Wayne Melleon 15 May 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus 2 comments

Entire range of Olympus Professional Dictation Devices awarded 6 stars by Nuance

With a score of 6 Dragons from Nuance, producer of Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software, Olympus further strengthens its position as market leader for professional dictation solutions. It is the first time that an entire range of professional dictation devices – both mobile and stationary types – utilizing the established industry standard format DSS Pro has received the maximum rating of 6 Dragons in recognition of impeccable speech recognition accuracy. These include the DS-7000, DS-3500, DS-2500, DR-1200, DR-2100, DR-2200 and the DR-2300. The announcement underlines the focus Olympus places

Pathcare entrusts Olympus with all their Dictation Requirements

by Wayne Melleon 30 April 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, General, Olympus, Transcription Kits 4 comments

Pathcare, one of the largest Pathology practices in South Africa have for years entrusted Olympus with all their Dictation requirements. The working relationship between Maynards Office Technology (Official importer and distributor of Olympus Voice Recording products in S.A) and Pathcare goes back over 15 years and in that time Pathcare have continually made use of the “top of the line” Olympus Dictation Devices, DS-3000, DS-4000, DS-5000 and now moving onto the new DS-7000.

The origin of the Pathcare group of practices can be traced all the way back to 1922, coincidentally this is the same year Maynards Office Technology was founded

The Olympus DS-3500 – Versatile Multitasker

by Wayne Melleon 16 April 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus No comment

The new Olympus DS-3500 Digital Voice Recorder has certainly taken a few steps forward in relation to its predecessor the DS-3400.
The DS-3500 makes use of a 2” colour TFT LCD screen which gives the user an extremely crisp image; struggling to see the screen is no longer a concern. From a security point of view the DS-3500 makes use of 256 bit real time data encryption with a 4 pin device lock feature to ensure all data is securely stored. The new Li-Ion battery pack replaces the old Ni-MH pack and gives the device better battery life (up to

Olympus Audio SA Sales Conference – 2013

by Wayne Melleon 26 March 2013in General, Olympus No comment

A couple of weeks ago we hosted the third annual Olympus Audio SA Sales Conference at the beautiful Theewaterskloof Country Estate. It was the first time we have headed out of Cape Town for the annual event, something that turned out to be a great success. This year we were extremely fortunate to be joined by Chris Baugh and Badr Alaoui-Sossai from Olympus Europe. Their input from a product and development point of view was invaluable to our team and certainly added that little bit “extra” over the previous couple of years.

Our sales teams from our Johannesburg and Durban offices

Olympus ME-33 Boundary Microphone

by Wayne Melleon 14 February 2013in General One comment

Its with great excitement that we are finally able to introduce the new Olympus ME-33 Boundary Microphone to the South African marketplace, our first stock consignment on the new mic’s has just arrived and they are guaranteed to be an immediate success.

The ME33 is a powerful, omni-directional microphone that is purpose-built to record voices from a distance – even in the largest conference rooms. Combined with an Olympus professional voice recorder, it consistently produces audio files in crystal-clear sound quality by automatically cutting extremely high and low frequency sounds.

It also gives you scalable recording power: By connecting up multiple ME33

End of an Era – Tapes Discontinued

by Wayne Melleon 4 February 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus No comment

With the recent announcement from Olympus that all Microcassette Tapes have been discontinued it truly means we are coming towards an end of an era, the era of Analogue (tape) recording devices. With the advent of Digital Recording products in the early 1990’s many people believed these analogue machines would have been a thing of the past a long time ago, this is however far from what is the case today. Many small businesses, individuals and even the odd corporate company still have the old tried and tested tape machines performing critical day to day activities within those businesses.

Analogue tape