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My father passed away and I saved a few of his really great voice mails. I want to transfer them to something more permanent. Any suggestions?
I do, however, like to hear his encouraging voice on my saved messages occasionally, so is there any way to keep them on voice mail too? It's convenient to hear him on the phone, and very comforting. Thanks!
Assuming the phone company has no way of accessing them accept on the phone itself.
If you have a phone with a headset jack try plugging a 3.5 cable with two male ends into the phone and AUX or MIC jack on your computer. Use Audacity to record.
I think TheCoalMan is overthinking here. I helped a friend do this for exactly the same reason. Her dad died.
We simply:
- Found a quiet room
- Plugged a simple PC microphone that I already had into a PC
- Used the free Audactiy program TheCoalMan mention and got ready to record
- Dialed her voicemail and put it on speaker phone
- Hit record after the voice prompts
Couldn't be easier and the quality sounds great. Last step:
Not to disagree with Peregrine, but the reason TheCoalMan suggested plugging in a 3.5 cable from the phone to the computer was to eliminate any background noise. While you could use the speaker phone and record with a microphone, the microphone could pick up any potential unwanted noise.
My father passed away and I saved a few of his really great voice mails. I want to transfer them to something more permanent. Any suggestions?
I do, however, like to hear his encouraging voice on my saved messages occasionally, so is there any way to keep them on voice mail too? It's convenient to hear him on the phone, and very comforting. Thanks!
I have done this with a voicemail from a deceased relative. What I did was use a program called iMazing for the iPhone.
It allowed me to copy the voicemails that are saved on the phone and save them as files. Check it out, it's pretty easy to use.
You can use it to copy or backup files from the iPhone.
Not to disagree with Peregrine, but the reason TheCoalMan suggested plugging in a 3.5 cable from the phone to the computer was to eliminate any background noise. While you could use the speaker phone and record with a microphone, the microphone could pick up any potential unwanted noise.
This is what I was going to say.
You could go the simple route by just using a mic, or you could plug it in to a computer directly and eliminate noise.
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