mostly research stuff
so this is cool…after i wrote that article about how to record phone calls, the guys over at easyVOIP recorder dropped me a note to thank me for the mention and asked about advertising..
…of course, since you all know i’m a total asshole, i quoted them 10 thousand per month - but they’re just a couple of young dudes who have built a cool product…so we came up with a better idea: no charge for this blog post BUT they’re gonna give away 2 free copies of easyvoip recorder to passingnotes.com readers who comment on this post with the best or most interesting ideas for features or improvements…
rules (simple): check out (windows only) easyvoip recorder, look it over, come up with some cool ideas for features or enhancements etc., then comment here (down below) and be sure to include your real email in your comment - it will not be displayed, only i can see it on the back-end (and i need it to reach you!)…in 14 days (end of sunday night april 13th), the guys at easyvoip will look over all of the comments and using a totally non-scientific approach (aka “gut feelings”), they’ll pick the best two ideas and let me know and will then send you free license keys for the software…i’ll let you all know how it shakes out in a follow-up blog post…
…but what’s easyvoip all about? well, did you read this article about recording phone calls?…oh, and don’t forget about all of those nasty phone recording laws…
short version (from their site): “EasyVoipRecorderis a small computer software which records VOIP softphones conversations. With this tool you can record and store Skype, Gtalk (Google Talk), VoipCheap, VoipStunt, VoipBuster, VoipBuster Pro, 12Voip, Yahoo Messenger, X-LITE 3.0, MSN Live, Globe7, VoipWise, VoipRaider, VoipDiscount , Net2phone, JustVoip, Freecall, Nonoh, SipDiscount, InternetCalls, WebCalldirect, PoivY and LowRateVoip conversations.”
so yeah, that’s the dealio…enjoy.
this blog is mostly safe for work, though i sometimes throw around a 'fuck' or two. you'll find a bunch of my articles from CI Magazine, SCIP online, other research pieces and some other crap. enjoy. there's lost of content here related to getting information about, around, from and through people and organizations...
Greg Hughes
April 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am
This looks to be the perfect solution for recording investor relations calls and interviews, especially if you can isolate the audio from your caller and the person on the other end - great idea!
One feature that would be especially useful in a phone recording app is podt-recording audio “normalization” or you might think of it as adjusting the audio so it is at even/relatively uniform volume levels. Having recorded many phone calls over the years, I find that when you have a conference call with people dialing in, you inevitably get the super quiet ones and the blastingly-loud ones, so doing some expansion/compression on the gain would be invaluable to make it more “listenable.”
Also, although I have not tested it, I’d hope it will work (now or in the future) with Vonage softphones.
prefabrik
April 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Having recorded many phone calls over the years, I find that when you have a conference call with people dialing in, you inevitably get the super quiet ones and the blastingly-loud ones, so doing some expansion/compression on the gain would be invaluable to make it more “listenable.” what is this word.