Saving voicemail

Is there any way to save voicemail messages on your computer? I've
tried connecting my phone's headset jack to my computer's line-in jack
to record the sound, but the sound is very very weak.

Jeff

At 24 Nov 2006 17:46:47 -0800 jeffrey wrote:
> Is there any way to save voicemail messages on your computer? I've
> tried connecting my phone's headset jack to my computer's line-in jack
> to record the sound, but the sound is very very weak.
>
> Jeff
>
Perhaps you could call your cellphone's voice mailbox from your PC with a
VoIP app like Skype and record it?

If Skype doesn't have a record function built-in, you could use a
freeware or shareware audio capture app.



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Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:45679ee2$0$21223
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> If Skype doesn't have a record function built-in, you could use a
> freeware or shareware audio capture app.
>
>

Skype has lots of new addon gadgets the whole world is coding. Pamela call
recorder is one of them. Just click on it under TOOLS then DO MORE and
chose it from the Skype list of addons. Nixon would have been proud...(c;

And, no 18 minute gaps, either!

Larry
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Doesn't it cost money to use Skype?

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 24 Nov 2006 17:46:47 -0800 jeffrey wrote:
> > Is there any way to save voicemail messages on your computer? I've
> > tried connecting my phone's headset jack to my computer's line-in jack
> > to record the sound, but the sound is very very weak.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> Perhaps you could call your cellphone's voice mailbox from your PC with a
> VoIP app like Skype and record it?
>
> If Skype doesn't have a record function built-in, you could use a
> freeware or shareware audio capture app.
>
>
>
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"jeffrey" <johjeffrey@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1164428677.853722.284120
@l39g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

> Doesn't it cost money to use Skype?
>
>

Depends on where you are. In the US and Canada, Skype to phone/cellular
is free until Jan, 2007...a promo. After that, it's $US0.021/minute to
either. Check the Skype webpages for other countries. Most major
countries are 2.1c/min, except to call their cellular phones, which the
caller has to pay to connect to.....

If you have a Skype IN number for $28/YEAR, not month, it comes with free
Skype Voicemail. Accessing it from your Skype computer, anywhere, is
free. So, instead of forwarding voicemails to the cell carrier's
voicemail you have to pay to listen to, forward it to Skype Voicemail you
can listen to for free from any computer or for airtime (same as you're
paying to listen to cell company voicemail, now, and can't record.)

Skype has several listed call recorders the 3rd party programmers have
coded. At least one of them records direct to MP3, saving lots of disk
space!

There's new ways to call from your cell on Skype, too! I'm using Vox for
Skype (http://www.voxlib.com/) from the supersophisticated Motorola V60i
on Alltel. I call my own Skype IN number. (It's $28/YEAR, not month.)
Vox sees I'm calling and answers the phone on my computer at the house
running Vox and Skype by remote control. The English girl voice in Vox
reads me the menu...1 to call a Skype computer for free...2 to call any
phone on Skype Out (at Skype Out rates from my precharged account)...3 to
have my computer read me who on my contact list is online at the moment
for a free Skype call...etc. You just press the touchtone(r) buttons on
the phone to get what you want. You don't have to wait and waste
airtime. To call someone's phone in Japan, if you don't have it pre-
programmed into the cellphone's speed dialer, press 1, + Country Code,
area code, phone number. If you preprogram skype out calls into the
cellphone's memory, put a 1+812974739832 into it...Country code 81. 1
tells Vox this is a phone call so it dials, not connects to another Skype
computer. The + must preceed any Skype call, even the house across the
street, with country code and phone number. Preprogramming numbers you
call frequently, including voice recognition, makes it painless, even
hands free.....and really cheap!

If your carrier has free incoming calls, like Nextel for instance, you
can call on Skype for no airtime for free! Vox also is controllable by
SMS. You send your Skype an SMS for Vox to read, it makes the call and
CALLS YOUR cell, a free call on some systems, making all Skype calls with
Vox INCOMING calls. You pay only an SMS message to start the call. If
you were calling a Skype computer in Saudi Arabia, that SMS message is
the total cost of a call...no matter how long it is...as Skype-to-Skype
from your Vox-Skype home computer to his is always free.

There is also new software for PALM OS phones! http://www.iskoot.com/
It doesn't even break the carrier's rules on "unlimited" hobbled-up
internet service. Iskoot is a CONTROL for Skype on Iskoot's own Skype
servers. The Palm software tells Iskoot's servers what you want to do,
then dials the cellphone into the server to complete the Skype call.
Skype In already has an automatic call forwarding you can put your
cellphone number into to get incoming calls to any cellphone. Iskoot is
free during beta testing but will be fee-based to pay for the servers,
eventually....well, unless Ebay buys them like Skype.

There are hundreds of neat Skype things coming out every month, now.
Skype for Mobile (Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.x OS) is against the
carriers' AUP/EULAs, but it works great...well, until WM3 or 5 crashes
every hour. I was running it on wifi on a Dell Axim X51V under WM5.1.
Skype worked great. The Axim/WM5 was a disaster and returned for refund.
It sucked! Skype for Palm OS will be out very soon. Demand is very high
because WM5 stinks so bad. I'm looking at Palm TX for my Skype Phone,
next. Hell, there's free wifi all over, here, to use it with....

Do try to limit your conference calls to the 500 station Skype limit...
(c;

At 24 Nov 2006 20:24:37 -0800 jeffrey wrote:
> Doesn't it cost money to use Skype?
>
You didn't specifically ask for a FREE solution to your problem, did you?
Besides, I suggested a VoIP solution LIKE Skype. Depending on your
location there may be cheaper and/or free alternatives.

As Larry pointed out, Skype is currently free in the US and Canada.

Larry is our resident Skype enthusiast and expert here at alt.cellular,
so I'll defer to his superior knowledge on the subject if you need
further info on that solution.

As a cheaper alternative you could revsit your original solution- a cable
between your phone's headset jack and computer. The low volume was most
likely caused by a wiring mismatch. The phone's output is likely a four-
conductor 2.5mm connector, with conductors for ground/earth, speaker out,
mic in, and switch. You need to figure out which is ground and which is
speaker out and connect those two to the 1/8" (3.5mm) 3-conductor
connector going into your soundcard, which tip-to-ring should be left
audio in, right audio in, ground.

Barring that, you could do a quick and dirty low-fi solution- plug a
microphone into your soundcard, point it at your phone's speaker and
replay your voicemail while recording the mic input. Not elegant, but it
will work!

Good luck!



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