I have never had good experiences with the transeducer style phone pickups. There is always a buz, the voices are frequently difficult to make out, and as Greg said, getting them to stay connected to the back of your receiver, is usually a losing battle. Some places sell a little device, that connects between the receiver and the base, which can be plugged into a recorder. They are okay, but also aren't the best, and they only work on a system, where the handset is only a speaker and microphone, not the type with dialing apperatis, and most of the other phone functions, in the handset. These can be had from C. Crane (800-522-TUNE). The best way I have found, is to use a device that is designed to connect to the phone system directly, and not to any particular phone. That is, the sort that plug into a telephone wall jack. There are tape recorders made for this (I think C. Crane's Versacorder can do this, but I'm not certain), and there are also small devices that interface to a tape recorder, or other recording system, which you provide. That is the kind I have currently. Cost about fourty bucks including shipping, and worked quite well. I get my stuff of this kind, from: http://www.spytechagency.com Luke On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > My experience with those has been that: > > 1. The quality of the recording isn't as good as I think it could > be. > > 2. I've found a very limited amount of hand sets that the cup will > actually suction to. The ear piece part has to have a perfectly flat > plain a bit bigger then the cup's size, otherwise, it won't stay > attached. There are supposedly things that are a tape deck, to which > you attach the phone line, and then you attach the phone. Sort of like > a record-only answering machine that doesn't pick up the phone and > play a greeting. However, I've never used one of these. > > Greg > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:49:10AM -0400, Jared Stofflett wrote: >> How about a phone aptch? It's a suction cup that sticks on the back of the >> phone, and plugs into a standard microphone jack, and records the audio as >> if it's a microphone. >> > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBIO4z7s9z/XlyUyARAoDLAJ9FiKbRcrlaFQd54EnonvT5JI2hxACgwNXU > 4ZHYE2bJvjRF3KbHN9omfv8= > =PzKe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
