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April 29th, 2007 | Posted in Podcasting, Web Design 22 Comments »
I’ve been experimenting with a free conference call recording/podcasting service called FreeConferencing from LiveOffice — free if you don’t mind calling long-distance to Minnesota, U.S.A., that is. Most people have free long-distance with their cell phone plans. Or even if you don’t have free long distance, you can use Skype and get long distance for nearly free.
What’s cool about this service is that it allows you to record the conversations. You just click a button that says “Start Recording,” and then an hour after the phone call, you log in to a web interface, download the recorded call in MP3 format, and voila, you’ve got a conference call podcast. This could be very handy for podcasters who want to interview but lack equipment. Or more likely, for those virtual meetings where not everyone is present.
Last week, we had an STC chapter conference call with our student liaisons, but one couldn’t attend because she was traveling. So I recorded the call, then posted it on our chapter blog under a password-protected page. When the liaison returned to town, she listened to the entire call and was completely up to speed with the issues discussed.
On Tech Writer Voices, I also recorded a podcast with several participants — Char, Brenda, and Kit — on their new book, Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from Wikis, Blogs, and Other Collaborate Tools. The podcast went well except that I myself don’t have a landline phone, so I used my cell and I sounded very cell-phoney. Oh well. Maybe next time I’ll use Skype.
The audio levels of the participants weren’t the same, so I had to levelate it. The Levelator tool does wonders to balance audio, but at times leaves a rushing waterfall sound. Still, that’s better than having your audience constantly adjusting the audio levels. I hope you enjoy the podcast.
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I would be interested in your reaction to AirTraffic Control, a VST plugin.
I had the original idea for ATC while imagining a book discussion among peers with hi-fi headsets who share no local air. Who feel as if they are in the presence of one another, as naturally as possible. Once you have high quality stereo (or better) audio with low enough latency…. how would you want to control it? There’s no reason each participant shouldn’t mix their own audio, if doing so is simpler than dirt. ATC as a VST plugin is something of a sandbox, a way to experiment; rather rough at present. But it’s not too far from something you could drive on a phone with a stylus.
Maybe I’ll experiment with it some day — right now I’m pretty busy with moving and changing jobs. But thanks for the idea. I’m still not sure from your description what the plugin is supposed to do, though.
Tom –
You might also be interested in a service called RecordMyCalls.com. It is not free, but does allow you to initiate calls directly to others and record them. Also makes it very easy to share, download, search the calls, etc. Hope this helps.
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You should really check out Rondee — http://www.rondee.com. They offer free conference calling with call recording and a number of other pretty useful features.
Thanks for the tip. But it doesn’t seem to record calls. So how would it help my podcasting?
Actually, Tom, Rondee does record calls. When you
set up a call, just click the option for “record
audio”. There is no charge for the audio recording
(or for the free conference calling service itself)
http://www.rondee.com
I’ll have to try it sometime. Thanks again for the tip.
Hi,
I’d like the option of sharing documents online with people taking part on the conf call. Also possibility for people to type in questions which can be answered by the host of the conf call. Anyone know a good option?
Maura
I recommend gotomeeting.com. I’ve listened to several Go To Meeting webinars and they went well.
There are a lot of other webinar tools, but I’m not that familiar with them.
Recording audio has never been easier! You dial into your conference then use 3-way calling to dial into PubClip phone recording service. You can record for up to 3 hours. ZERO per-minute charges. If you want to try the service for FREE go to http://www.pubclip.com
If you want to create your own recordings, the best site to do it is conferencetown.com. It is a free conference call service, but they allow recordings in many formats. It was ranked #1 of all the free conference call companies.
Thanks Ron for your info! I was fed up with the free conference call companies that I had been using, so I tried conferencetown.com and it was excellent.
Thanks,
Mike G.
Hi All,
I am looking for a conference chat and call solution which can be integrated to our website database. We want to give users the option to chat and call using our website, but we want to record all call and chat logs in our database. Can anyone guide me how that is possible ?
Any Third party solution / Script, anything like that ?
Thanks,
Zia
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Are there any conference calling companies that offer unlimited conference calling? I found one company that offers flat rate conference calling at http://www.24conference.com/flatrateteleconference.php. Thanks for the article!
Hi, Timothy,
our company, nexiwave.com, provide free unlimited calling, on top of that, we provide free audio recording and free machine transcribed text to the recordings too. Think us as a search engine for your conference calls.
We have just opened up registration to fill some available capacity. Feel free to register for free today and enjoy our free services: nexiwave.com
Ben Jiang
Founder/CEO
For those who still need help, http://www.audiofilesolutions.com specializes in conference call recording and podcast recording and production. We provide the best quality recording possible over a standard phone line. And if you need editing, music, a voice-over, we do that too. Someone had mentioned transcription in a previous post; yes, we do that too. We basically do it all and are there to answer any of your questions along the way. Keep in mind that almost all of the major conference call companies automate their recording process, so you will get low levels, fluctuating noises, and overall marginal quality. That is why we exist. Hope we can help.