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  1. I did a Google for the string "convert DSS Macintosh" and found a 2004 product from Olympus (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13575&vid=169016) and a product called Switch Sound Converter, from, of all people, NCH. Umm, okay, I have to ask the question: Do these products not do the job? I mean, it took all of 20 seconds to find them, and this is an NCH forum....
  2. If the goal is to get from DSS into anything else, you can use a combination of the Olympus player software (http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/software_results.asp?id=1153&os=m) and Audio Hijack Pro (rogueamoeba.com), which can capture the audio stream from any source and funnel it back into a number of other formats. You have to wait for the DSS file to play all the way, but in the end, you would have (for example) an MP3 file. (Audio HJ does do m4a, but sadly, Express Scribe does not.)
  3. If the goal is to get from DSS into anything else, you can use a combination of the Olympus player software and Audio Hijack Pro (rogueamoeba.com), which can capture the audio stream from any source and funnel it back into a number of other formats. You have to wait for the DSS file to play all the way, but in the end, you would have (for example) an MP3 file. (Audio HJ does do m4a, but sadly, Express Scribe does not.)
  4. In Express Scribe you can rename a recording, but when you exit and relaunch, you are back to the previous name.
  5. In Express Scribe the keystrokes Command+< and Command+> messed up. Fast forward as command+> usually moves all the way to the end of the recording. Rewind as command+< usually jumps back to the beginning. I said usually because once in a while they change. Once in a while [keyboard] rewind will jump back an odd amount, like 3 minutes. If you play for a few seconds and then rewind again, it jumps back to the spot it landed on last time.
  6. I'm not sure which application did it -- Express Dictate or Scribe -- but I found the user's top level of folders (user/) has folders and files for one or both of these apps. This is very against the grain of good Macintosh programming. Think I'll investigate other brands of solutions.
  7. You can see activity headed to /var/tmp/somefilename, but the file never ends up in the folder you have specified.
  8. I have no idea why, but Express Dictate supports M4A, but Scribe does not.
  9. It appears from the FAQs that Express Dictate, but not Express Scribe, supports the m4a format on the Macintosh. This question is perhaps beyond the scope of this forum, but ... why? Were Scribe and Dictate originally created by different teams?
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