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Friday, July 01, 2016

Recording phone calls with available tools.

So a friend of mine was at work a few months back and started running into some abusive crap with her boss.  As it was over the phone, I suggested recording it but didn't know how to make that happen quick and easy.  She wasn't super tech-savvy and didn't have much on hand so I put together something of a howto for that process.

Hopefully someone will get some use out of it.

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The first thing to do is get something to attach the recording device to your phone. I recommend rubber bands but this is what I had on hand:




Essentially they are thin Velcro strips




Then just put your hands on anything that has a long, thin mic:
So essentially this:


And do your best to attach it to the phone. Wrap it around so that the tip of the recorder points at the headset:


Just get it right next to it. Your voice should be roughly the same volume as whomever you’re talking to.


It looks weird but you’re good to go. There’s a program built into every version of Windows that’ll let you record voice audio. Just type Sound into the start menu and it should pop up:


If you have problems, make sure you go through the sound tools inside Control Panel to make sure it’s not muted and is turned up as loud as possible.




[Ignore Speech Recognition.]


That should be all you need.


Even better is one of these things but you have to mess with either your phone or Bluetooth:
Still it’s crazy easy and way simpler to hold it:

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