Not OT at all! > 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,
Olympus/Philips DSS = PITA. Forget about open source ever, the audio format isn't even described. There is a commercial converter for DSS files which runs on Linux, reasonably priced, but I forgot its name. Foot pedal could be tricky, essentially this is turning the audio playback on/off? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.