[TriLUG] Record Phone Interviews? Anyone done this?

[Carl Crider]

I use a Uniden EXI976C phone with my [ugh!] Vonage box.
I'm going to use a compatible headset, with a splitter out
to my sound card mic input. For my needs it will work.

You got it Jon, Low-Tech is all you need sometimes.




On 6/5/07, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Carl,
> Can you send a link to the headset? I have a friend who is a sound
> engineer and is looking for a way to get some local band interviews for a
> Web site.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 11:39:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Record Phone Interviews? Anyone done this?
>
>
> Hey, thanks a ton for the offer Andrew. I found a solution just before I
> read this.
> I can use a headset with a splitter that runs into my Linux box and will
> record
> [in this case with audacity] the calls. These will be transcribed to text
> for
> magazine articles.
>
> Man I dig TriLUG, there's always help.
>
> -Carl
>
>
>
> On 6/5/07, Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I have a low-tech solution you're welcome to borrow - it's a fairly old,
> > broadcast-quality cassette recorder from Marantz that I use for research
> > interviews. It has a telephone jack on the side, which along with a
> plain
> > RJ11 splitter records very nicely from the phone. Let me know if you'd
> > like to borrow it; I use it very rarely these days.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -
> > http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
> > Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
> > University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
> > New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Carl Crider wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > I need a way to record phone interviews. Has anyone
> > > done this recently? I'm doing more research of course,
> > > just thought I'd tap my local resource.
> > >
> > > details:
> > > -The calls will be made from my home phone [VOIP].
> > > -They don't have to be super-clean audio, just clear enough so
> > > that they can be transcribed.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Carl
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