Archive Your Mobile Phone Voicemail
Do you have messages on your phone that you save every time you review your voicemail? A call from your daughter announcing your first grandchild? Mary Pat McBride saying she does love you and she will go to the prom with you after all? Your boss calling - fully intoxicated - and promising you the Penske account?
If you’d like to get these messages off your phone and store them somewhere else Murphy has a solution. Run Audio Hijack while calling your mobile phone via Skype. Save the recording on your computer and you can delete it from your phone.
To call a mobile phone from your Skype account you’ll need Skype credit. Maybe you have a free-of-charge way to call your mobile from your computer. Let us know in the comments.
If you’re not familiar with Audio Hijack you can watch the screencast for details on how to capture your voicemail.
It really works. Here’s a success story based on the experience of Jean MacDonald from Smile On My Mac. (textexpander and more)
Related Post: You can make Skype always start in invisible mode. Or whatever mode you choose.
6. April 2008 at 6:01 pm :
I ran across this website and article serendipitously after reading a review for a book on Applescript on Amazon. Getting important voice recordings off my cellphone has always been in the back of my mind. I followed the tutorial and misunderstood the last part about System Preferences. I thought it was the application preferences and couldn’t find the exact snapshot of the interface. I kept trying to record but would always get ambient or background noise - because the built-in mic on my Macbook pro was ‘on’.
So, I buckled down and ended up following part of the “Deprecated” tutorial in the Help User’s Guide. I essentially added an Application Mixer plugin which will record only the in-line audio instead of the mic when the Crossfade is set to 100%. Just forgo the part about adding a Voiceover plugin and it will work like a charm.
10. July 2008 at 3:58 pm :
My phone company has a service that lets you download the voice messages as .wav files from their website