Olympus DS-2300 (16 MB, 5.5 Hours) Handheld Digital Voice Recorder

Olympus comes up with the goods again with this little recorder unit. Small (but not microscopic), easy to use controls with flexible storage and excellent battery life. Though it can't use the larger capacity XD cards available today, the cards it can use can be picked up for peanuts. Have a few on hand and just hook up to your pc and download for archiving.

Convenient to use. Excellent price. Near enough to modern top of the range to work perfectly with versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking.

I have thought about getting one of these for a while now and finally went for the DS-2300. I wanted a device to replace my (very) poor note taking at technical meetings. I've now used it twice. I have no complaints at all. Its lightweight and unobtrusive and very intuitive and easy to use, light and makes very good recordings. The (PC) download and playback software supplied with it is also very good. I invested in a set of headphones for my PC and now I have complete control of technical note taking at meetings etc. Highly recommended.

Firmware 1.01 does not accept M and H types of cards. There is upgrade to 1.08 on Olympus website which makes the dictaphone to accept 2GB M-type card. I use H-type 512MB card which is more then enough to me. It gives me over 84 hours of SP recording.
Unfortunately, I cannot compare to other digital dictaphones. It is definitely better than cassette type.
No bad points yet.

This is a Much better dictaion machine than the last one we had, as this one lets you pause in a recording then carry on once you have found the information you wanted or gathered you train of thoughts, it also lets you save easily in five different folders for easy retrieval, plus the main bonus for us was the fact that DSS files are much smaller than the WAV files are last machine used. So the Files are much smaller to email to the office for typing. also the DSS reader was very easy to download from the olympus web site.


Also the Item was a lot cheaper on ebay than through any online or shop outlets i could find so all in all a good value item and a good item to use

Richard

Borrowed one from work and liked it so much, decided to buy one. Very easy to load programme onto PC, straightforward to use, footpedal is easy to control and to forward/ rewind recording. Seems compatible with majority (?all) olympus ds recorders. If you have recordings to transcribe, this will really make your life much easier and seriously speed up time taken to type up your recordings.

I need a dictaphone for letters etc and having finally pensioned off my last Phillips tape machine when it went phut! I bought a digital setup about a year ago which used the Olympus DS330 as the recorder. All was OK for a while but the DS330 is tiny and the sound quality awful. My secretary started complaining and so I (foolishly) bought a DS30 voice recorder - amazing sound quality but it is NOT a dictaphone. There is no rewind or insert edit facilities. You turn it on and record. The DS2300 is a better more robust version of the DS300. Just perfect for what I need. Dislikes? Olympus could have supplied the thing with a case as they did with the DS300. Where the hell do I buy one? It is not healthy for the machine to jog around my pocket or briefcase with the silver finish getting rubbed like a Genie's lamp all the time! Also the rewind facility is a bit slow but that seems to be a feature of digital. You can't beat the speed of tape hissing backwards over the capstans. Ah! those were the days.