[Air-L] Recording phone interviews

[Katherine Carpenter]

Audacity is a really easy to use and free software that you can use to
record calls.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 5:01 AM Karin Assmann <kassmann at terpmail.umd.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Zach,
> Not sure if this satisfies your need for privacy, but I‘ve used the Skype
> add-on Ecamm Recorder. It‘s about $30 for a perpetual license and works
> with Skype and FaceTime.
> I keep a $10 credit on Skype and make the (very inexpensive) call from
> Skype to any phone (landline or cell). The recorder pops up automatically
> and I press record after I get consent etc. A file is created locally that
> can be converted into whatever format you need (mp3, wav ...).
> Works the same way with Facetime calls. You do have to make the calls from
> your computer since this tool does not exist as a phone app.
> The quality is excellent or rather, as good as the phone connection, but
> that‘s the case no matter how you do it.
> Hope this helps, good luck.
> Karin
>
>
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> > On Jul 17, 2020, at 07:37, Nadine Kleine <nkgkleine at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Zach,
> >
> > I can second Andrews' suggestion - we are using the method with the
> > in-ear-mic of Olympus and the quality is much better than recording
> > conversations over loudspeaker.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Nadine
> >
> >> Am Fr., 17. Juli 2020 um 13:15 Uhr schrieb Andrew Chadwick <
> >> A.Chadwick at lboro.ac.uk>:
> >>
> >> Hello Zach,
> >>
> >> Probably the best solution is an old-skool hardware phone pickup mic
> that
> >> you can plug into your own hardware voice recorder/dictaphone. Olympus
> do
> >> these sorts of things and the new ones work fine with mobile phones.
> >>
> >> Good luck!
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
> >> • • •
> >> • www.andrewchadwick.com
> >> • www.lboro.ac.uk/research/online-civic-culture-centre
> >> • www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 17/07/2020, 11:12, "Air-L on behalf of Zach Bastick" <
> >> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of zach.bastick at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>    Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>    Given these times of social distancing, a colleague and I are
> >> conducting
> >>    interviews by telephone. We are looking for solutions to record the
> >>    interviews locally (so that we can transcribe them), but also
> maintain
> >> the
> >>    privacy of the interviewees. We have considered various options (from
> >>    conducting the interview over loudspeaker with a recorder next to it,
> >> to
> >>    using Google Voice, to using subscription services). We have decided
> >>    against services that ‘join’ the call as a conference call
> participant
> >> and
> >>    send you the recording because we would like to maintain full control
> >> over
> >>    the recorded data (again, for ethical reasons). So, we were wondering
> >> what
> >>    the experience of the community here has been. Are there any recent
> and
> >>    reliable tools that people here are using? What have you found to
> work
> >> well?
> >>
> >>    Thanks!
> >>
> >>    Zach
> >>
> >>    Dr. Zach Bastick
> >>    Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science
> >>    European School of Political Science, France
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