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
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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.
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----- 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
