I went to the Warrior Forum a few weeks ago to get advice on what service to use to record a phone interview.? There were two suggestions:? a free conference call service, and Audio Acrobat.

I decided to go with the free conference call service and created my free account.? I was given a phone call and access code, along with instruction on what keys to press to have the call recorded.

The person I was interviewing had to call into the conference service too.? The problem started when I tried pushing the keys to begin recording.? It seems one of the numbers I was to push doubled as the number to turn on and off mute.? So after repeatedly muting and unmuting the line, I was nowhere near starting the recording feature.

For that interview, my interviewee had a more reliable conference service that we ended up using to record the call.

A week later for my next interview call I decided to go with Audio Acrobat.? It was much easier to use given that I could just set up a 3 way call on my cell phone… First I called the Audio Acrobat line, then my interviewee, then I bridged the lines.

The only tense issue is that Audio Acrobat says that after 30 seconds of silence they stop the recording.? I was afraid that it would take longer to dial my second number and bridge the lines — but everything worked withing the time limit.

I was very happy to discover that I could immediately download the recording.? I quickly sent it to CastingWords for transcription.

Audio Acrobat provides a lot of other audio-related services for recording and streaming, but for now, I’ll just keep them as my preferred audio service for recording telephone interviews.

-Chris