<p>I am about to embark on a project where I will want to conduct and record some phone interviews. I will most likely transcribe the interviews as well.</p>
<p>Does anyone have experience with a device that would be good for this? (Obviously I would get the permission of the person on the phone prior to recording.)</p>
<p>(I am intrigued by the “Livescribe” pen, but apparently this does not have the capability to record a phone call.)</p>
<p>I have a very small RCA digital recorder. After asking permission from the person I am talking to, I switch to speaker phone and turn on my digital recorder.</p>
<p>My son has been using Skype for this purpose. He has needed this feature for the interviews he is doing for his graduate research. BTW, I do believe there is a fee for this, but I an not certain. It must be fairly inexpensive since my ‘penniless’ grad student son is using this.</p>
<p>Many of the people I will be interviewing will be elderly, so I don’t think I can count on using Skype (Skype is free, by the way).</p>
<p>I checked out the Call Trunk service link provided above, and it looks like it would work very well for what I want to do. The advantage of using something like Call Trunk is that there would be no concerns about the sound quality of the recording (presumably).</p>
<p>Nope, Skype is not always free. In addition to their free service, they also offer more advanced services for a fee.</p>
<p>According to the Skype web site, Skype-to-Skype calls are free.</p>
<p>You are charged if you use Skype for landline or mobile based calls.</p>
<p>The type of service offered by CallTrunk is not offered by Skype.</p>
<p>On a land line, you can use a regular tape recorder that is connected to the phone line with a telephone recording control, which is about $20.</p>
<p>Jazzpark, that sounds like a possibility - do you have a tape recorder model you can recommend?</p>
<p>Any basic cassette tape recorder will do. Unless you have professional equipment, most recordings will sound about the same.</p>
<p>What about me,i use IMCapture for Skype [url=<a href="http://www.imcapture.com/IMCapture_for_Skype/.It’s]IMCapture">http://www.imcapture.com/IMCapture_for_Skype/.It’s]IMCapture</a> for Skype (formerly SkypeCap) prog for record audio and video calls.</p>
<p>I had a interview with an alumni on the phone (mobile). I just downloaded an app which lets you record any conversation that takes place (incoming or outgoing) and has a very cool interface as well.</p>
<p>There’s an app for Symbian and Android, not sure for iphone. Google it up, you’ll find many links.</p>
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<p>I had a job recently where I often had to act as a notetaker for conference calls. The topics of the calls were highly technical, and I could not produce decent summaries from my notes alone. So I used a digital recorder, just like whatever4. Mine was an Olympus. As long as the room is reasonably quiet, it works fine.</p>
<p>I am a freelance writer and have been doing this for years. It’s possible there is more “modern” technology, but this is what I use</p>
<p>Radio Shack device (cat. #12A07) that plugs into my phone (which is an old-fashioned swimline landline phone–not all phones work and the newer digital ones definitely don’t) and then into a small tape recorder. I still use the ones that take cassette tapes, because I tend to do multiple interviews before I get around to transcribing, and sometimes I like to save the interview. The recorder I have is the SONY TCM-200DV. I think I found it on Amazon after its predecessor died, which I discovered had been discontinued by Radio Shack.</p>
<p>Here is what I ended up doing. </p>
<p>I bought a digital voice recorder with a microphone input jack.</p>
<p>I bought a cordless phone with two handsets. Each of the handsets has an input jack. (It was actually hard to find a phone with an input jack. Best Buy didn’t have any; I found some at Office Depot.)</p>
<p>I bought a cable and connected the voice recorder to one handset through the input jack.</p>
<p>So, I use one hand set and put it on speaker phone, then pick up the extension (second handset) which has the voice recorder attached, and turn on the voice recorder.</p>
<p>This works fine, and I really like my digital voice recorder (Zoom H1).</p>