Re: Recording phone line

["milesy1981" <chrismiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is actually very simple to do with just a 56k fax/modem in the PC

There are many software packages out there (names elude me now)
which can basically detect a call coming in, and pick up the line
and start recording to a wav.

You also need to be very carefull regarding the legalities of it.
It is only legal to record telephone conversations for your own use,
provided you do not make them available to any third party by any
means such as transcription, email or otherwise (Unless you inform
the listener that the call is being recorded, and as such their
continued conversation is an acceptance of that condition). Any
thing you record without permission could not be admissible in any
court of law, if for example someone phoned your house and was
harrasing you or threatning you - even if that recording clearly
indicated who the person was - it's still not admissible.

Chris

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul@...> wrote:
>
> Peeps.
>
> One of the things I've long wanted to implement is automatic
recording
> of all telephone conversations into or out of our house. To this
end, I
> have most of the essential parts in place: - I have reliable hook
> detection of our landline into the HA PC, and I have an audio
interface
> between the phone line & a line-in port on the HA PC, so all I
think I
> need now is a piece of code to tie these together. I'm hoping this
part
> will be quite simple...
>
> As you will no doubt have gathered from the above, I want to use PC
> based recording on my HA PC, rather than something like a dedicated
> cassette-based telerecorder device. This is for ease of access to
the
> recordings, and so I have no maintenance to perform (changing a
tape for
> instance).  I simply want to start recording whenever the phone is
> off-hook, and stop recording as soon as it goes on-hook. I Want to
> record audio into WAV files, with filenames indicating date & time
of
> the recording, - and that's about it.
>
> I have Homeseer running on the HA PC, so I can use any of the
facilities
> therein to manage the process, - although I don't currently run HS
> Phone, and I don't have 2-way audio between the PC & the phone
line. I
> also don't get caller-ID from my telco, so I don't need to do
anything
> fancy with that.  Ideally, a nice simple script that could control
an
> instance of an audio recording tool on the PC would be great.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
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