We have a cordless phone for our landline, and this has a digital voicemail system. We do not use the landline voicemail. Someone we know has sent us threatening voicemails, and I would like to be able to preserve them apart from the cordless phone system. (This is not yet serious enough for the police, in my estimation, but I suppose it could escalate. We are intending to not respond to the actual caller.)
The only thing I can think of is to play the messages out loud into another digital recording device of some kind. The sound quality is already poor, and I expect it would get a lot poorer from making that kind of recording.
Any ideas or suggestions about how to do this? The phone system is a Panasonic KX-TGD560, if that makes any difference. I could not find any mention of this in the user manual.
There are phone apps that can record your phone calls. Install one of them on your cell phone then call your home phone and check voicemail. The app should save it as an audio file.
Thank you, but it’s not a cell phone, it’s a cordless phone that we use on our land line.
@commasense, I’m seeing feedback from purchasers that that device doesn’t work with cordless phones. Maybe it would pick up the message as it plays back from the cordless base unit, and that might be worth a try. I wonder if I could use it to record onto my cell phone (with an adaptor, if necessary).
I mean call your cordless phone from your cell phone. Your cordless phone almost certainly has a way to call it and check messages. It might be by pressing * and some numbers when the greeting is playing. Use your cell phone to call your home phone and get into the voicemail menu and play the message. Back in the olden times, this is how we checked messages when we weren’t at home. We’d find a pay phone and call our home phone and listen to the messages.
If you post the cordless phone model, we can look up how to check messages when you call it.
Sorry I misunderstood. So I should probably start the voice recorder on my cell phone, then call up the house phone and play back the voicemails. Then stop the voice recorder, and I can probably email myself the voice recorder file so that I can listen to it on my computer, and possibly forward it to someone else. If I don’t have that right, please feel free to correct me.
Yeah, you got it. Go to your app store and search for “call recorder”. You’ll get lots of hits. The call recorder can be used to record your phone calls. Start it up and then call your home number and listen to the voicemail. Then you can do whatever you want with the audio file. You can also look for apps which can record from the microphone. Look for “audio recorder” or “voice recorder”. Those will allow you to hit the play button on the answering machine and the app will record whatever the mic picks up.
As you may realize, the call recorder app can be used to record any phone call. If this person is calling your cell phone, the call recorder app can be used to record the live call. However, the legality of recording a live phone call varies from state to state. The state law will basically be either “one party” or “two party”. If you are in a one party state, you can record the call without the other person knowing. If you are in a two party state, you have to tell the other person you are recording the call. You can search for “is statename a one party call recording state” to see what the law is in your state.
Are you going to get better quality recording the messages over a phone call to your cell phone or just playing them on the speakerphone? My guess is that the speakerphone will sound better.