Call recorder (analog)
Someone
This client has a Panasonic KX-TD1232 without any voice mail,
using 7433 sets that have the XDP jack. They tell me that they
want to be able to record phone calls from about a half dozen of
the stations for later transcription.
They already use microcassettes from handheld voice recorders
for dictation. The typist plays them back in their Lanier machine.
These microcassettes get recorded at standard speed (1.2 or 2.4 cm/sec.)
The only problem is that these handheld voice recorders have no
jack for external input -- only a jack for external earphone.
So if I set the XDP jacks to parallel (which should make them
work as analog extensions of the digital jack) and get a few
phone recorders that work off the line (as opposed to working
off the handset cord), should this do the trick? They're not ready
to spend the $800 or more for a Panasonic VM unit, which could
accomplish the same thing. I figure I can get 6 phone recorders
for no more than $50 each.
Also, any recommendations for appropriate microcassette phone recorders
that aren't answering machines?
Thanks.
Charles P.
If you enable parallel phone, that does NOT do what you want, unless they
actually talk on a single line analog phone on the xdp jack The "parallel"
programming setting is for the ringing of the parallel jack not to let two
phones work simultaneously. A phone plugged into the xdp jack will take over
for the digital and vice versa. i.e. if I'm on the digital phone and pick
up the single line phone, the digital stops functioning automatically. If
I'm on the SLT and pick up the digital, then the slt stops. Actual analog
proprietary phones (7700 series) do have audio on the analog pair.
So you can:
a. use the handset adapters
b. record off the co line itself
c. use 7700 series phones, then the analog pair is really carrying the audio
d. spend money
You can get a call recorder adapter made for the Panasonic digital phones,
it takes the digital signal into the USB port of a pc, there it converts it
into an audio .wav file. They are not cheap though, at about $300 each
(cost of voicemail starts to look better...) -www.ablecomm.com has the
recording adapters.
charles
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Someone
> The "parallel" programming setting is for the ringing of the parallel jack not to let
two
> phones work simultaneously.
You're right. It was after I posted my message that I remembered
the way parallel programming worked (from a similar exercise a few
years ago.)
> So you can:
> a. use the handset adapters
That's what we'll do. The P5045 by P3 looks like a good buy at $35 each.
Ruth
from http://www.retellrecorders.com.
You can also get handset connectors there. If the 7433 handsets are digital,
then I am guessing the that P5045 is deisgned to plug into an analogue line
jack, and so won't work. You will need to go on the analogue curly cord. At
retellrecorders.com they have low cost 157 connectors, but you might be
better of with their 650 product
http://www.retellrecorders.com/recording/machine/650.htm which connects to
both the mic and speaker wires in the curly cable so that you get perfectly
balanced sound recording. Also it mutes the output when a call is not in
progress. I know that on some phones the mic is still live when the phone is
on hook, and so your recorder running on VOX will keep running due to noises
in the room. The 650 has some kind of microprocessor in it that figures out
when the phone is in use.
Ruth
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davidusb
. They are the first ones to have a usb recorder hence the name. Very
crisp and clear recordings with tons of features. No adaptors needed
for this one.