One great use of podcasting is interviewing guest speakers and sharing the conversation with students. Recording those conversations hasn’t always been easy, especially if they are telephone based. VoIP companies like Skype are making recording these conversations a lot easier. The VoIP Sol blog wrote a post on 15 different applications that make it easy to record Skype conversations.
15 Apps for Recording Skype Conversations – VoIP Sol
Click the link to find out about 10 apps (mostly shareware, some freeware) for Windows and 5 for Mac that can record Skype calls. Most also offer various other capabilities, such as recording streaming audio from the internet or connected devices.
It’s amazing in this day and age that many people are still not familiar with Skype and other VoIP programs.
Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network (Wikipedia).
I use Vonage for my home phone and Skype for messing around on the internet. Both make it easy to record audio and do what ever you want with it. What I like best is the voicemail. When people call and leave me a message, the file gets sent to my email box and I can listen to it via the computer. I don’t know but that’s just something I’ve never liked to do, call in to listen to voicemail messages. The recorded and saved audio files can then be used in a podcast if you choose. As for recording interviews or conversations with guests, they only have to use their regular phone while you mess with all the techy stuff. VoIP is great tool.
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