Using a laptop to record phone calls?
 

When I travel, I'd like to be able to occasionally record phone calls to my laptop for note taking purposes. My thought would be record them as WAV files on my laptop so I can listen to them later and make good notes of the call. I would need to do this from either from a cell phone or a landline.

Is there a hardware/software combo solution out there that will do this? Does anyone do this now?

Windows already has a recorder built in.

But it only records for 60 seconds.

Could you do something with Audacity? You'd have to somehow pipe the call out to sound in on the laptop, right (obviously I know nothing about this sort of thing, sorry)?

This might work. Grand Central has a beta program that allows you to record phone calls. I believe you can retrieve them through your email. Not quite like recording directly onto your laptop, but if you have internet access, you should be able to retrieve it. I am not sure that you can save the recording directly on your laptop.

Their system is that you can sign up and have one number that can ring through to two phones (more than two costs; two is free). Your messages come to your email. So far I like it. See http://www.grandcentral.com/ (there is probably a way to format this for a link; I'm sorry I don't know how)

It was written in the NYTimes last week and I think I saw a link here, but I'm not sure.

When traveling with my attorney his laptop would recognize his phone's bluetooth signal somehow and when the computer was on, and within signal, it would record all calls.

Considering he was a lawyer I though it was strange that he had all his calls recorded without disclosure.

I have no idea how it works but this might point you in the right direction.

A discussion here may help - links to using HotRecorder or Audacity to record Skype calls.

They also have a link to a Radio Shack Wireless Phone Recording Device that you could use to feed audio in to the computer - so you could use any program that can record the inbound feed.

Please be aware many states prohibit recording phone conversations unless all parties consent to the recording.

MisterNice

[QUOTE=myfrogger;7542029]When traveling with my attorney his laptop would recognize his phone's bluetooth signal somehow and when the computer was on, and within signal, it would record all calls.
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Never tried this, but it looks like what you described here... http://www.xheadsoftware.com/recorder_xhead.asp

I use Skype and IMCapture for Skype to record calls.