RE: Recording Skype Calls In Applications Such As Goldwave, CastBlaster, etc.

From: "Mika Pyyhkala" <pyyhkala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:00:33 -0500
Hi,

Yes, I just activated Sound Tap myself, and it changed Jaws from playing
through the USB Imic sound card to playing through the on board SigmaTel
audio.

Then when I exit Sound Tap, it goes back to the way it was.

I guess none of these things are really great and without drawbacks.

I think what I really want is the "what you hear" option, but my on board
sound card does not have it, and I don't see it in the Griffin USB Imic
sound card either.  I am going to call Griffin tech support and see if it
supports the "what you hear" option.

When you look at sound card specs it rarely says for instance:
"supports what you hear"
So it seems you are taking a chance in buying one as to whether it has that
option.

By the way how did you record that podcast where you did the Juice tutorial?
In that one you had your mic going, as well as Jaws.

Thanks,
Mika

 

-----Original Message-----
From: blindcasting-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blindcasting-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darrell Shandrow
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:21 AM
To: blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Recording Skype Calls In Applications Such As Goldwave,
CastBlaster, etc.

Hi Mika,

I just tried Sound Tap and it messed around with my mixer settings to the
point my default sound card got changed, etc.  Kinda icky.

Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mika Pyyhkala" <pyyhkala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:58 AM
Subject: RE: Recording Skype Calls In Applications Such As Goldwave,
CastBlaster, etc.


> Hi,
>
> Yes, I have used Talking Communities before and it is quite accessible. 
> But
> sometimes I will want to record Skype calls or the telephone.
>
> I first played with Hot Recorder that I initially found on The Desert 
> Skies.
> It seems to have no keyboard support, but I was able to use the jaws 
> cursor to find the recording and stop icons.  However, it natively 
> records in a proprietary format (sort of like a play list) and I was 
> never able to navigate to or play any of the recordings it made.
>
> Right now I am playing with a piece of software called Sound Tap from:
> http://nch.com.au/soundtap/index.html
>
> It has very good native accessibility built in.  All the buttons 
> speak, etc.
> The hardest part was figuring out where it stores its files (its in My 
> Documents and then Recordings folder).  It natively records .wav files.
>
> I have only been playing with it for 20 minutes.
>
> It seems to work best so far if you don't have jaws as well as other 
> applications speaking through the same sound card.  E.g. right now my 
> Jaws is speaking through a USB Griffen Technologies Imic, and the rest 
> of Windows audio is coming out of the laptop built in Sigmatel on 
> board  sound card.
>
> When I had Jaws and Windows audio going through the SigmaTel I got 
> some distortion of the Jaws and crashes of Skype, but again that was 
> just one session, and not even tested after reboot.
>
> One obvious question this raises for me is how do you tell Jaws what 
> sound card you want it to use.  What I have done is to boot up the 
> computer having the Imic USB device plugged in, and then Jaws comes 
> out of the headphones of the Imic usb device.  Even if I switch the 
> "play" sound to the on board audio, Jaws continues to play out of the 
> Imic usb device.  This configuration (Jaws to USB Imic, and rest of 
> audio to on board sound card) seems to work best with Sound Tap.
>
> Regards,
> Mika
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindcasting-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:blindcasting-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darrell 
> Shandrow
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:47 AM
> To: blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Recording Skype Calls In Applications Such As Goldwave, 
> CastBlaster, etc.
>
> Hi Mika,
>
> You definitely want to stay away from Power Gramo.  I currently have a 
> 5 user Talking Communities chat room which includes very good 
> recording capabilities, so if both users are PC based, well, you're 
> all set.  It would be wonderful for interviews, so long as both 
> parties are fine with half duplex communications.  Better anyhow; no 
> wworries about people talking over each other.
>
>
> Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!
> Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator!
> A+, CSSA, Network+!
> Visit http://www.petitiononline.com/captcha and sign the Google Word 
> Verification Accessibility Petition today!
> Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by 
> another person.
> Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: 
> http://www.blindaccessjournal.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mika Pyyhkala" <pyyhkala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:49 PM
> Subject: Recording Skype Calls In Applications Such As Goldwave, 
> CastBlaster, etc.
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good way to record Skype calls?
>> My
>> sound card does not have the "what you hear" option which I imagine 
>> might do it.
>>
>> I have been looking on the web, and none of the solutions seem that 
>> great.
>> Many of them require that you do your recording in a specific 
>> program, etc.
>>
>> I did check out Hot Recorder, but I could not figure out how to save 
>> files.
>> You also must use the jaws cursor quite a bit in hot recorder.
>>
>> I am also playing with something called Virtual Audio Cable Which is 
>> some kind of shareware software mixer.
>>
>> But I'm wondering how people here record Skype?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mika
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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