<snip> > Most of the work seems to be for transcribing DSS audio into Word/Excel > files, and I am now convinced that the best solution for this is the > Olympus software. I raised the original question because if there was > some good transcription software transcription software for Linux, my > wife would prefer to specialise in creating OpenOffice documents using > her favoured operating system. This probably isn't such a great idea > after all.
No, it's a great idea. Unfortunately this is a 'niche' product, so it is not yet fully supported in a Linux environment. I don't see anything wrong with striving towards this goal, but there's no sense bashing your head into a brick wall to see if it will help. It is true that the Olympus software plays nice with MS Office, however, it works quite nicely on its own, so you could run the Olympus software in Windows and OpenOffice in Windows. This gets you your output in the desired format, and allows you to access the input with no trouble. In the mean time maybe something will come up that will solve the problem with Linux, or maybe you will come up with a solution. Maybe we could pressure Olympus to open the dss specification, then someone could write a dss audio player (or a good conversion utility). A
