Do It Yourself Wiretapping
With wiretapping in the news these days, a banally useful tip on tech gear that every aesthete, reporter, sleuth, paranoic, or alimony seeking spouse should know about. Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing reports: A friend of mine, a journalist, recently emailed to tell me he likes the Olympus WS-110 digital voice recorder I recently recommended. He said:
I just wanted to thank you for guiding me to try the Olympus WS-110 digital voice recorder for interviews, using ffmpegx to convert the audio to MP3, and then Listen&Type to transcribe. I’ve been using all three for a couple of weeks now, and have been very happy with the results. The recorder in particular has been great: tiny in size, it holds more hours of audio than I could ever need, and has been able to clearly record both sides of an interview.
Being able to store interviews on my computer as MP3 files is also a great benefit.
A few days ago, I bought a very useful accessory for the WS-110: The Olympus TP-7 Telephone Recording Device. You simply stick it in your ear, and make the phone call. It does a great job of recording both ends of a conversation. It will work with any recorder, not just the WS-110. It also comes with various jack adaptors. Olympus TP-7 Telephone Recording Device.
