Recording a phone conversation?

[nancylebov]

What would be the easiest way to record an hour and a half or so? Are there reasonably cheap phones with built-in tape recorders? Get a speakerphone and a tape recorder? Somehthing else?

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[wednesday]

Carry out the phone conversation over Skype and run the audio through Audio Hijack Pro or similar.

[mneme]

What is the reason for recording a phone convo?

A quick websearch seems to indicate that Pennsylvania is a two-party state (ie, you need the consent of all parties on the line to record a phone conversation legally). http://www.pimall.com/nais/n.tel.tape.law.html

That said, I'd probably just use a phone with an outgoing phone jack, split it, run one end into a tape recorder and the other into a headset. Requires about $20 of parts, if that, from Radio Shack, plus a (probably cordless) phone.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to do a therapy session by phone, and I'd like to be able to review it.

Thanks for the info.

[(Anonymous)]

I've got a gadget from Radio Shack that let you do this with a cassette recorder. You put the phone plug into a phone jack and two plugs into the "MIC" socket and the other socket next to it whose name I forget. (The latter is the one that normally lets you start and stop the records from a switch on the mike.)

You put in a tape and press "Record", and the tape recorder will start recording when ever the phone is off the hook until it goes back on the hook.

You are limited by the cassette length, of course. There are 110 minute cassettes out there, which mean you have 55 minutes recording time, and then you have to flip the cassette by hand. There may be longer sizes also, although I've heard that longer tapes are thinner and more fragile.

Looking at their web site, it looks like Radio shack still sells these for about $25. Search for phone and recorder on http://www.radioshack.com/ and the thing I am thinking of is the fifth listing.

It looks like they have other devices that may be used for this as well.

You may wish to look in the front of your phone book for information regarding legal issues of consent to recording in your area.

- Captain Button

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thanks.