Available as a free download, Olympus has recently released an update to their Device Configuration Manager, commonly referred to as DCM. The DCM allows users to customize or reprogram the DirectRec and RecMic USB Microphone Series, which is especially useful when working with third-party applications like Dragon Medical Practice Edition and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. DCM Version…
Our friends at Olympus has recently released a new RecMic Admin Center. For those of you new to Olympus dictation products, the Olympus RecMic is their latest hand-held USB microphone with programmable buttons. The RecMic Administration Center is comprised of two applications that can be used to further enhance the applications functionality while providing additional…
Unfortunately no, at this time, the ODMS R6.1 Dictation & Transcription Modules must be running in order to receive notifications. The Olympus Research & Development team has received feature enhancement request and may incorporate this feature in future releases but no confirmation or expected release date has been made yet. IMPORTANT: If the suggested resolution above…
Error message: The application cannot be executed because the following shell folder defined in the registry cannot be found. Please contact the system administrator. This error occurs when the Olympus® DSS Player Pro R5.0.12 has been installed under a login with insufficient admin privileges on the computer. You can confirm this by running the DSS…
Sometimes when you connect your digital voice recorder, it will not show up in your dictation software—and it may also not be seen as a removable drive under the computer drives section of Windows. This can be caused because Windows 7 has a Power Option called USB Selective Suspend, which allows the computer to selectively…
Synopsis: When I try to open my Olympus DSS Player Pro Release 5 software, I receive the following error: “The application will be terminated because the user profile is corrupt”. Question: How to I correct this issue? Answer: We’ve seen this issue a few times, a majority of the time, the solution below has resolved…
Question: I want to clear my recorder of all loaded files. How do I format the recorder? The recorder and memory card should be formatted only by using the internal FORMAT function found in the recorder’s Menu. Using a computer to format a card will render the card unusable in the DS-4000. The card…
How Do I Get My Dictations? The Olympus® DSS Player Pro Release 5 Transcription Module has the ability to automatically receive dictations from your email application. In order to make this happen, there are several steps required. Make sure that you have completed the following: 1. Email Profile: Go to Tools > Options > E-mail/FTP…
Question: In the documentation for the NEW Olympus DM-4, several times it mentions DAISY. What is DAISY? DAISY is an acronym for Digital Accessible Information System. It is a means of creating digital talking books for people who wish to hear-and-navigate written material presented in an audible format. Many such listeners have “print disabilities,” including blindness,…
Fixing Olympus Installation Errors When you open the Olympus® DSS Player on a Windows® computer, are you getting a warning window that says, “Failed to register DeviceManager and Codec Filter for COM. Please reinstall DSS Player Pro R5”? This error message indicates that when the DSS Player Pro R5.0.13 application was installed, its codec filter…