You can buy a special microphone from Olympus for telephone recording. It also doubles as an earpiece. For recording, you plug it into the external microphone input, for listening, into the earphone. It uses a 2.5 millimetre plug (I think it was designed for the Olympus Pearlcorder series) and you have to use an adapter PA3 (which can be supplied on request ).
I have had mine for about 18 months and occasionally use it with my Olympus DS 3000. A slight drawback is that on digital phones and cellphones there is quite a lot of background hum, but the conversation (from both ends) is perfectly intelligible.
See it at http://www.olympus-europe.com/consumer/2587_Multipurpose_Adapter_TP6.htm
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Mark Priestley
Sent: 20 January 2005 11:58
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Subject: recording telephone interviews?
Hi
I wonder if anyone can help me with an annoying technical problem. We recently moved over from minidisk to Olympus DS-2200 digital recorder for interviews, which is great quality and interfaces easily with the PC etc. However, when we tried to use this for telephone interviews we ran into a major problem.
The input socket on the recorder works perfectly with the external stereo mic plugged in but doesn't work at all (or shorts out?) when the mono plug from the telephone adaptor is plugged in. No recording and it degrades the telephone signal. A stereo plug adaptor doesn't solve the problem. For the moment, we've had to revert to copying minidisks again (aaargh!).
Can anyone suggest a solution or recommend a digital recorder that actually works with a telephone adaptor! :o)
Best wishes
Mark Priestley
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
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