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Useful Devices for Audio Weblogging? 42

Posted by Cliff from the helping-you-speak-your-mind dept.
Henri Poole asks: "I'm advising the Kucinich Presidential campaign on technology and we are looking for an audio webblogging solution. Kucinich's assistant plans to log his own travels and would prefer to do so via voice. We're looking for a device with the following functionality: phone, web, email, audio, and calendar. Verizon is the preferred (but not essential) service and they are advising that we buy Samsung or Kyocera equipment. We'd prefer a free software solution...any sage advice?"
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  • A bet (Score:1)

    by pmz ( 462998 )
    I'll bet 50 gil that the first application for audio weblogs will be a fart diary. I'd honor the bet, too, if I could link my PlayStation memory card to PayPal...
  • First, get a microphone. Then get a laptop with a wireless card. One of those really small laptops from japan would work well. http://www.dynamism.com. Then, just record your audio, type your text and upload by finding a wireless network. What else could you possibly need?

  • Voicemonkey (Score:3, Informative)

    by Zinereem ( 128640 ) <roy@nOSpam.janik.com> on Thursday July 17, 2003 @02:46PM (#6463786) Homepage
    VoiceMonkey [voicemonkey.com] is a new service that lets you do voice logs. Right now it's in beta, so it's free. You call a toll-free number and it records your message as an mp3, which is immediately available online. If you have an existing journal through Blogger, Livejournal, or a host of other services, it can post to them automatically.

  • Is the assistant unclear on the concept? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Cowdog ( 154277 ) on Thursday July 17, 2003 @02:49PM (#6463813) Journal
    I think you should find out whether this assistant actually has a clue what a weblog is, and report back to us. Does he/she imagine that there are people who actually will want to listen to this stuff? Or is there another agenda -- maybe the assistant wants to take voice notes for the purpose of later writing a book? If that is the case, just use a private voicemail box with a large storage allocation.

    Another way would be an audio recorder (Archos) or even a small tape recorder, a line in jack on a sound card, and a few perl scripts to upload the newest recordings to a web site. Almost any geek should be able to slap this together.

    An audio blog does have the cool factor of being a new thing, but the problem is listening to audio is so linear, it consumes human time to a much greater degree than text. There are no shortcuts with audio (short of tricks that are unlikely to materialize just yet in your particular weblog). I would have the same problem with a video weblog.

  • slow down tiger (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by paradesign ( 561561 )
    why dont you first put his political persuasion on the homepage. is he a democrat? republican? fuck if i can tell.

    secondly, shouldnt you be focusing on his platform? why should i vote for him over candidate X? because he audio webblogs?

    then, who is actually going to listen to his audiologs? not me. although his plee for gay marriages would im sure make for some good 'out of context' soundbites.

    lastly, how the FSCK did this get on slashdot? are we a turnkey consultancy? cant he pay someone to keep

    • My question is technical. I don't see how his party affiliation is a factor in the answer. The answer to this question is obviously relevant to other people or our great editors at slashdot wouldn't have published this question.
      • it matters because its not there. they have more important things to be thinking about than audiologging solutions. his end goal is to get elected. stating his party on his website helps that. they think audiologging is going to help him get elected. they are overlooking the small things and going straight to the technical.

        i understand that others may too be interested, but this is from a tainted source. its like Dubya asking for help on foreign policy. if your hired to do a job, you should already b

        • The main qualifying factor for a democratically elected official is being representative of the people who elected him. Why the hell should an elected official NOT keep an open web forum? I want my representatives ACCOUNTABLE.
    • why dont you first put his political persuasion on the homepage. is he a democrat? republican? fuck if i can tell. [...] although his plee for gay marriages would im sure make for some good 'out of context' soundbites.

      So you noticed the same-sex marraige item on the candidate's page and you think there's a chance that he's a Republican?

  • ...making love to blow-up doll not as good as advertised.

    You could get a tape recorder and a few tapes.
  • I've got the latest (7135). Had the last version too (6035). They rock. Buy spare batteries and the stereo headset right out of the gate.

  • Hardware:
    1. Computer w/ Internet connection
    2. Pair of headphones

    Software:
    1. Goldwave (free for trial use)
    2. CDex

    Insert headphones into microphone jack on computer. Record with Goldwave, speak into headphones, edit with Goldwave, save as .wav file, compress to mp3/ogg with CDex, upload to blog site.

    Easy as 1,2,3,4.

  • asdf (Score:1)

    by pmsyyz ( 23514 )
    Google for audioblog and use a phone.

  • Recording audio for internet (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Well try this.
    1. buy a micro cassette recorder or tapeless digital recoder. The device must have a line-out jack. $40 max.
    2. buy a 1/8 male to 1/8 male stereo cable at Radio Shack. S/B $2 to $3
    3. download Audacity from www.freshmeat.net $0
    4. install cable to mic in jack on laptop or desktop sound ports.
    5. Plug other end of cable to line out of recorder
    6. install and run software.

    7. press record button of Audacity and play button on recorder to record.
    8. Finally save as MP3 or Org format.

    That's it.

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