On 4/10/06, Tom Munro Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife does some part time work transcribing Olympus audio files to > Office/OpenOffice documents, but since she became a convert a couple of years > ago, she would much prefer to work exclusively in Linux. I'm looking for some > software to play back Olympus .dss files using a foot pedal to control it, > but so far Google hasn't pointed me in the right direction.
dss (digital speech standard) is a proprietary format used by both Olympus and Philips. you can convert from .dss to wave format from within the Olmpus software on a windows box. http://www.olympus-europa.com/consumer/2590_3477.htm#4005 I have not been able to find an Open Source equivalent that will transcode although these may be available. >From there you could use your favourite player to listen to the file. Or scribe can be installed using wine. http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html (look under linux) I don't know how you will go getting the foot pedal working with either of these solutions however. Is it a usb/serial device or does it plug into the game console port? The usb/serial devices only seem to run with the olympus software. Although you can pick up alternatives fairly cheaply. Dan Coe
