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Olympus AS-2300 PC Transcription Kit
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Great product!
(5 out of 5) by E. Sherwood on Aug 29, 2006 (Edwards, CA)I am a doctoral student and I purchased this to help me transcribe hours and hours of interviews myself. I spent a lot of time researching recording/transcription equipment and liked the reviews on the olympus products. This kit is very easy to use and plugs right into my laptop. I also bought the Olympus digital voice recorder (WS-310M)which has incredible memory and quality recordings, and radio shack helped me out with a telephone adapter for phone use as well. I have not done transcribing before and this made it manageable. I highly recommend it.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Olympus AS-2300 Transcription Kit
(4 out of 5) by Robert Raynor on Jan 13, 2007 (Awendaw, SC)The installation went well, with connecting the pedal and installing the software quite easy. It is a good product. It does not get the highest of five stars for two reasons: 1) There could have been more documentation with the software, and how it related to my other Olympus software would have been helpful; 2)when using the software and pedal doing some transcription I got a blue screen. I hope this was just a one time glitch, but I am a bit anxious about it.
Overall, though, a good product, and hopefully will give me many hours of transcription service.
Overall, though, a good product, and hopefully will give me many hours of transcription service.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent
(5 out of 5) by Seymour Remen on Sep 9, 2007 (Ann Arbor, MI USA)This is a fine product -- BUT really unnecessary since the matching 2300 voice recorder comes with the same transcribing CD included in this package that allows you to listen, edit, repeat etc. simultaneously just with the mouse. Once the recording is loaded onto the computer, everything is available for transcribing. Earphones are also very good.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
This product made my life as an Executive Assistant a lot easier
(5 out of 5) by J. Simpson on Feb 8, 2008This is great for typing from audio transcriptions (which I do alot). The only thing is that I have to turn the pedal around so that the rewind side would be on the left side (I don't know why they put it on the right side).
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Does not work with Mac, even though specs say it does
(1 out of 5) by Babycakes on Jan 8, 2008 (Baltimore, MD USA)This product, contrary to the specs, does NOT work with a Mac. The reference manual leaves out huge chunks of what you need to know to run the software, as does the embedded "help." I called the Olympus support line and this is an exact quote from the "technician": "Umm....... [long pause]." If you have a Windows machine, knock yourself out, but if you have a Mac, STAY AWAY.