Using a DS-2400 With Mac OS X I want to use an Olympus DS-2400 recorder to make dictations and upload them to my Mac computer. I am running Mac OS X 10.9. Environment Olympus DSS Player for Mac 7.5.2 Olympus DS-2400 digital voice recorder Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Not sure what version of…
Where Is the Mac Options Menu? I can’t find the options menu for my Mac® dictation/transcription software. Environment Mac computer running OS X® operating system Olympus® DSS Player for Mac Philips® SpeechExec for Mac Most Mac applications Summary Mac applications look slightly different than they do on the Windows operating system. One of…
Downloading With DPMConnect for Mac When I record in MP3/WAV formats and connect my Philips DPM recorder to my Mac, the DMPConnect software displays “Downloaded: 0 Files.” My files won’t download. Environment DMPConnect for Mac (any version) Supported Mac OS X Any supported Philips recorder Summary DPMConnect for Mac does not support MP3 or…
Dragon Pro for OS X If you are familiar with Dragon® for Mac® speech recognition applications thus far, you may notice that Nuance® has changed the name of their non-medical speech recognition solution—again. We had Dragon Dictate for Mac v4, Dragon for Mac v5, and now Dragon Professional Individual for Mac v6. This change matches…
Dragon for Mac Medical v5: Setting The Stage If you use Dragon® Dictate Medical for Mac® v3 or v4 for your healthcare documentation, you already know how much easier it is to fill out a patient encounter using your voice. Now, you have the opportunity to upgrade to a new version of Dragon with a…
About Dragon for Mac v5 Today, we’re providing an overview of Nuance’s latest (non-medical) speech-to-text application for OS X: Dragon for Mac 5. We’ll be looking at several of the changes Nuance made to the application, so if you want to review the previous version, click here. The first alteration you may notice is that…
If Encryption Is Not Optional One of our customers was looking for a solution to the problem of encryption using a Philips® recorder and a Mac® computer. Now, you might not know why this is problematic; let me flesh out the scenario a little more. First of all, encryption must be set up on a…
SpeechControl Hotfix for Mac When Dragon® for Mac v5 was first released, there was a compatibility issue between Philips® SpeechControl for Mac® and Dragon that disabled the SpeechMike buttons for use in that application. The previous workaround was to use keyboard mode to perform limited functions. Philips has now released a hotfix for Dragon for…
Olympus Dictation for Mac OS X Today, we’re going to look at the Olympus® DSS Player for Mac®, which is the Apple® edition of the Olympus Dictation Management System (ODMS) for Windows®. While ODMS and DSS Player for Mac come on the same disc, be aware that they are not the same program. We will…
Digital Voice Recorders and Dragon Dictate Medical for Mac For those clinicians who prefer to work wirelessly, and need to be able to make dictations for transcription later, the digital voice recorder is an excellent option. Where there are limitations of time, attention, space, technology or location, a DVR can offer a straightforward wireless recording…