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| |  | Biometric Security Devices | Home » » » » » » Olympus DS-2400 Dictation recorder (142015) | | | | | | | Description: | | Physicians, students and the like can enjoy the ultra-efficient features of the compact DS-2400. The supplied 1GB SD Card provides abundant memory and the durability and reliability you need in a removable media card, while superb sound, a large backlit LCD, file management options and other features supply the professional performance you seek in an easy to use, sleek and stylish package. | | | Features: | |
• Push button control with new central navigation pod
• New DSS QP recording mode for higher quality audio
• Expandable SD/SDHC removable media card slot
• The DS-2400 features the Digital Speech Standard Pro
• USB 2.0 High-Speed
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 4.47 inches | | Product Width:
| 1.97 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.67 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.09 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Good for dictationsJul 30, 2010
I purchased 2 of these to replace our aging DS-2300. I learned We use them for medical dictation and they are heavily used. It has been a good replacement so far. For starters, it has a common USB cable that is cheap to replace as opposed to the one-of-a-kind, very pricy one that the 2300 had (> $50, if you can find a used one). The recorder is overall better built with a sturdier battery compartment. The memory included is much larger too - way more than I can possibly use in a full day of dictations. The controls are easy to use and there is very minimal learning curve to start recording. Overall it is fairly reasonably priced recorder for dictations. It has features such as "insert" which allows you to insert into the recording without overwriting - something inexpensive dig recorders do not allow you to do. It also has reverse and forward review which is needed for dictations. The sound quality is very good as well. Battery life is decent. I recommend buying a couple of sets of rechargables if you do much recording.
Overall, a very good recorder for a decent price. I don't think that you will find a digital recorder that is useful for dictations at a better price - and believe me, I tried several before I got these and they were useless. I will likely buy several more for our offices as our other 2300's wear out.
Awesome ProductFeb 22, 2010
Awesome product. Very fast shipping and packed well. Looking forward to doing business again.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Not impressedFeb 09, 2010
In this day and age, I sure as hell expected a lot more from Olympus... especially when you consider the price.
The size is decedent. Frankly, if it were any smaller, while being more portable, it would be more cumbersome to dictate with while you're actually working with it.
I use this dictaphone (provided by my firm) and we are fully set up for the DS2 format. In that regard, I can't complain because its not my problem. If you are a smaller operation, please see the other reviews that complain about that file format complaint. I DO have one complaint, however; the pause time gaps. (!!!)
The one ESSENTIAL function of a good voice recorder is the ability to maneuver back and forth in the last 15 seconds and to be able to restart right after you dictate a comma, but want to change what you said after. In this device, when you hit the "pause" button after finding your perfect spot, you actually start back up maybe 1/4 to 1/2 second later. So if you hear "comma" then hit pause, before you hear any sign of the next word, and continue dictating.... the playback will still have a chop of the old word in there.
The fix is that you have to start hitting the pause just before you hear the end of your last word, but hoping that you didnt cut that one off too.
Yeah, I may be finicky, but I am a detailed and fast-talking dictator. When you produce a professional dictation device at this cost, you better get the small essentials right. My old tape-based olympus was far superior in this annoying aspect - pretty sad, considering it was able to start/stop a physical tape better than a digital data stream. What gives?
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Perfect!Feb 07, 2010
Got this because the old one would not work on my Mac. I had all along wanted something to dictate my reports on that I could play back only partially if need be and easily send to my secretary for transcription. My old one could be up loaded to Yousendit but I could never play back just a little if I got interrupted and lost my place. This one does and I don't even need yousendit. It is pricy but my secretary loves it as well because I am now willing to do all of my reports this way and she rarely needs to come to my home office. She used to have to come here to pick up dictations that had to be done on a schedule. I only would use the other digital machine only in a pinch because it was difficult to use. Other wise i used tapes. I had been looking for a machine like this for years and all the others emphasized was good sound quality for music. I don't do music. If you dictate reports and want to be able to email them for transcription this is for you. I hope it holds up.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Great features, but unusable for me, because included software is buggyJan 27, 2010
I'm a long-time user of Olympus voice recorders and the features this one offers are truly impressive. See Sperazza's review for a detailed breakdown. Everything about the hardware seems great. However, in order to play the .DS2 files you create on this device, you need Olympus's proprietary software, which you can ONLY get on the CD that comes with the device (you can't download it from their website -- the website won't even tell you the most current version number). I installed the software on my office machine, which is a pretty standard Windows XP setup, and I could not use it to play DS2 files. I'd try to open a file, and nothing would happen. The program could handle other file formats (WMA and MP3) but not DS2. No error message -- just no response. After a couple of attempts to manipulate a DS2 file it would finally tell me that the file didn't exist or couldn't be found, even though I could easily find it in my directory.
I phoned Olympus customer support, where a nice gentleman helpfully informed me that there's a bug in the software that makes it unreliable when used with a networked machine. My office computer is networked, and that's where I want to use it. And, of course, without functioning software, the device is useless, since as far as I can tell pretty much no non-Olympus software can handle DS2 files yet, and that's the only kind of file the DS-2400 can create. So despite its great feature set, I will be returning this to Amazon.
I advise you to try to do whatever research you can before you buy this to determine whether the software will run on your machine. If you are planning on using this at your home, or in a non-networked environment, you probably won't have any trouble.
One other thing -- if you are familiar with Olympus's other digital voice recorders, you may be surprised by the large size and relative heaviness of this one. It's about twice as big as, say, the WS-310. It's about the size of a medium-sized mobile phone. Still very portable, though.
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