Hello everyone! Hey, anyone know how to record phone calls? Google only returns commercial software and tutorials for making a circuit, which I could do with my dad, but I'd like something simpler... I have DSL connection, so the modem's free... Or maybe a software to talk from your computer? I wanna make a request... well, a prank, to a company that's made me mad for being so stupid... Thanks! ;-) -- Leo

I suggest you rethink your motivation for this task as in most countries it is illegal to record telephone conversations without informing the person being recorded. I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

.. and you wont get far with a DSL modem either - voice signals are filtered out of the DSL signal via the filter which you should have installed. You need an analogue modem. I would reiterate Richard's comment. Recording a telephone conversation for anything other than personal use opens up a can of worms with privacy and fraud implications. Stuart

The simple solution (now that you've been appropriately warned) is to buy a recording device for the phone. You also require a tape recorder and most any electronics store (like Radio Shack) will have the device to connect the phone to the tape recorder. In case anybody is wondering, some years back a lady I dated had to get one. Her ex insisted on making nasty threatening phone calls to her. She of course had to warn him at the begining of each and every call that "This call is being recorded". It put an end to that very quickly let me tell you........LOL. Then he met me in person and that put an end to him stalking her and making stupid threats about kicking my butt to his drinking buddies at his favorite watering hole. (I'm 6'4" and about 190 lbs, he was about 5'4" and maybe 160 lbs......lol)

Illegal? How is recording a call illegal? I really __HATE__ those people that make laws... >:( Well... yeah, I might buy that device... Thanks! ;-) (PS: Curt R, you be careful with that kind of people... O_O) -- Leo

Actually there are single and two party states. You have to check what your's is. Oregon is a single party state. That means I can record a call and I, the single party, am the only one that has to know about it. I don't have to inform the other party and its perfectly legal. Out pbx system has voice recording which is why I know about this. If you run a phone call via your computer and a sound card you can duplex the signal and record it. It is worth the time and energy? I would think not. Give a person a fish you feed them for a day. Ask a person to internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

"I wanna make a request... well, a prank, to a company that's made me mad for being so stupid..." Proving that they were right, that your are pretty stupid, I take it. Today seems like a good day to chew through the restraints.