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Dissertation Emergency

  • 19-03-2009 10:55PM
    #1
    salec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hey guys,

    I'm in a situation where i have carried out some rather important interviews. they were recorded on a dictaphone and the only output is a headphone jack.

    i urgently need to get these into digital form. i've just got a new laptop so as i see it my options are:

    1. play interviews though peaker and record these through laptop built in microphone (not ideal i suspect)

    2. use a double ended jack and connect headphone output in dictaphone to micophone input jack on laptop.

    questions:

    1. is th second idea the best way to go or is there an alternative?
    2. what program on a brand new fairy high spec sony running on vista could i use to record this?

    i'd seriously appreciate any imput towards a solution

    cheers guys

    sc
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  • #2
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭trout


    I'd go with option 2.

    You could use Audacity to capture the audio ... it's open source, freeware and well regarded -> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

    I'm guessing you are running some version of Windows. Hope this helps.

    Good luck :)


  • #3
    salec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭salec


    thanks. and yes, running on windows vista


  • #4
    babaloushka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 490 ✭✭babaloushka


    salec wrote: »
    Hey guys,

    I'm in a situation where i have carried out some rather important interviews. they were recorded on a dictaphone and the only output is a headphone jack.

    i urgently need to get these into digital form. i've just got a new laptop so as i see it my options are:

    1. play interviews though peaker and record these through laptop built in microphone (not ideal i suspect)

    2. use a double ended jack and connect headphone output in dictaphone to micophone input jack on laptop.

    questions:

    1. is th second idea the best way to go or is there an alternative?
    2. what program on a brand new fairy high spec sony running on vista could i use to record this?

    i'd seriously appreciate any imput towards a solution

    cheers guys

    sc

    I've used a programme called Total Recorder for similar type of work with audio recordings http://www.totalrecorder.com/ It's not free unfortunately ($17.95, not a lot in euros) but I found it easy to use and it also worked for changing the formats of certain online broadcasts I needed so that I could record them on a CD. I used a free trial of it first to make sure it worked for what I wanted.
    I haven't used Audacity - maybe I spent my money needlessly :o


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