Transcription software with foot pedal control

Anybody know if Olympus DSS Transcription machine will work on Leopard? I do medical transcription and use the Olympus AS-3000 transcription kit with foot pedal. It is working fine with Tiger but I just got a new 24 inch IMac with Leopard ready to install and I want to make sure it will work.... any ideas? I need to be able to use the foot pedal when transcribing downloaded DSS files. Thanks

Thanks, Matt. The show controller I had seen but its too expensive I'm afraid. The Vpedal looks great. Just 2 simple questions if you don't mind.
Does it work with OSX 10.5 ? The site says up to 10.4.
I know it says it works with iTunes but I don't understand the itunes plugin info on their site. The only option seems to be Pause back time. I understand this to mean that it causes the file to rewind a certain amount when you lift your foot off the pedal. How would this work with playing songs? I wouldn't want to have to keep my foot on the pedal all the time. I was hoping for a 1 click starts file, next click stops it kind of solution.

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