Olympus DS-660

Tapes are out for dictation machines these days, as manufacturers and users cross the digital divide into the world of flash-memory-based devices. Much of this has been prompted by the lowering of flash memory prices over the past few years, and now pretty much any dictation machine comes with enough memory to store the equivalent of a sack-full of tapes. Memory is so abundant now that many devices double up as disk storage, with some even adding an MP3 player for good measure.