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Telephone Recording With PC

This document provides instructions for using a computer to record phone conversations. It describes connecting a simple circuit between the phone line and the computer's sound card microphone input to allow recording calls using audio recording software. The circuit uses inexpensive, easily obtained components like a resistor, capacitor, diodes, potentiometer and phone transformer. Connecting this circuit allows recording phone calls on the computer hard drive for storage and conversion to compressed audio formats like MP3.

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Telephone Recording With PC

This document provides instructions for using a computer to record phone conversations. It describes connecting a simple circuit between the phone line and the computer's sound card microphone input to allow recording calls using audio recording software. The circuit uses inexpensive, easily obtained components like a resistor, capacitor, diodes, potentiometer and phone transformer. Connecting this circuit allows recording phone calls on the computer hard drive for storage and conversion to compressed audio formats like MP3.

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How to Record Phone Conversations in the PC

Did you know that it is possible to use the computer as an electronic bug? To
use PC to record phone conversations is much more practical – and cheaper
– than to do so using a conventional tape recorder, besides being able to
record hundreds of hours of conversation, for the audio is recorded in a file
in the hard disk of the computer. And you may also convert the audio files
into MP3 so they take even less space in the hard disk, or you may even save
the files in an audio CD so the recorded phone conversations may be played
in any CD player.

Until not long ago voice modems were very popular in the market. These
modems had an answering machine, speaker phone, and phone conversation
recording system as extra features. For not knowing those features existed,
most users did not fully use the potential of their modems, so the
manufacturers ended up removing them from the newest models to reduce
their price.

Some of the most modern modems have an output channel called TAD
(Telephony Answering Device), which can be used to connect the modem to
the sound card, through a cable similar to the one used in the connection of
CD-ROM drive to the sound card. You may record phone conversations
through that connection using your sound card. In order to do that, your
sound card also needs to have a TAD input and you will have to install the
cable connecting the modem to the sound card.

With the popularization of the broadband Internet connection, less and less
users have modems in their computers. The solution to transform the PC into
a phone conversation tape recorder is the construction of the small circuit we
describe next. This circuit is very simple to be assembled, and it is very
cheap too. Even a user without a deep knowledge in electronics can
assemble it without great difficulty. The parts you will have to buy are: a
4K7 x 1 W resistor, a 220 nF x 200 V capacitor, two 5 V x 1 W Zener
diodes, a 10 K logarithm potentiometer (that will work as the volume
control) and a mono P2 male plug. There is also a phone transformer. To
reduce the price of the equipment, we suggest you simply remove the
transformer of an old modem (from a 2400 bps one, for instance). See in the
picture how the modem transformer is. We've posted a tutorial called "How
to Dessolder Components" that can be of great aid for those who doesn't
know how to remove the transformer from the modem.
Figure 1: Phone bug schematics.

Figure 2: Modem transformer used in the circuit.

After assembling the circuit, all you have to do is connect it to the phone line
on one side and to the Mic In channel of the sound card on the other. To
record conversations, you will need a recording program, like Sound Forge.
In case you don't have any, use the Sound Recorder for your Windows.
Since the phone line quality is not high, you may record at 11.025 Hz mono
so the recorded file is the smallest possible.

Attention: Please remember that recording a phone conversation without the


other party consentment can be a crime. Please consult your state/country
laws in order to not break the law.

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