Olympus DS4000 Professional Hand Held Digital Voice Recorder

Product Review

• Olympus DS4000 Professional Hand Held Digital Voice Recorder.
  
  
• Comes with 32MB xD memory card, provides up to 660 minutes of recording time (in Long Play mode; 310 minutes in standard play mode)
• USB Docking Station to connect directly to a PC or Mac.
• Compatible with pipular digital speech recognition (Speech to text) packages, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking and IBM Via Voice.
• Files can be outputted as .WAV and/or .DSS compressed digital speech format.
• Elegant body and compact design.
• DS4000 and DSS Player software are PC and Mac Compatible.
• 7 seperate folders let you store, transfer, and organize your files (199 files per folder).
• Noise canceling technology.
• Backlit LCD Display.
• Connect the DS4000 to a computer and use it as a USB Speaker to output audio or as a USB microphone when using voice recognition software.
• Includes a built in Variable Control Actuator that automatically starts and stops recording as it senses sound, helping to conserve memory and battery life.
• Insert up to 16 index marks per recording to quickly identify important dictation.
• Move, Erase, Overwrite, and Lock audio files.
• Use the Alarm Playback function to play a selected file at a pre-set time.
• Included are 32MB xD Card, Docking Station with recharge function, Rechargeable Battery Pack, DSS Player Pro Software, AC Adapter, USB Download cable and case.

Product Features

• Its smart, full-metal body also features a compact, ergonomic form and slide-switch control to enhance performance.
• The use of removable storage media further delivers effectively unlimited recording times and thanks to the high quality

Customer Reviews

 (1 customer review)

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

Don't drop it!!!, November 12, 2007

Leslie Arnold (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
  

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This is a good product and works effectively, BUT whatever you do, do NOT drop it. The battery compartment is on the corner of the bottom of the recorder. The door to this compartment is plastic and VERY FRAGILE!!! The battery is spring loaded and is kept in the compartment by the plastic door. A very tiny piece of the plastic door broke off my recorder when it was dropped and now the door won't close all the way. Because the door won't close, the battery won't stay in and it won't even charge. I sent it back to Olympus for repair. No can do. They said it was "damaged beyond repair". So a little plastic piece of a door has completely disabled my $450.00 recorder. Olympus' only suggestion... replacement. What is wrong with this picture???