Audio Vampire: Recording VoIP Conversations

Technocraft, a Japanese company, is offering Audio Vampire, software for Windows-based audio recording. Using this tool, you can record all your VoIP conversations in Skype, MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Recording starts automatically in the these three VoIP/ VoIM clients, and records to WAV, MP3, or WMA files. Audio Vampire is also an audio editor that can rip tracks from a CD.

You need to use either Windows 2000 / XP to use this software. A minimum of 128MB RAM is required. If you have the hard disk space, you can record conversations of any length supported by the above-mentioned VoIP/ VoIM clients. Other than this, you need DirectX 8.1 or later.

Audio Vampire’s biggest mistake is not having a trial version. US$25.50 is a lot to pay for something untried when you can actually record VoIP calls for free with something like Audacity, a full-fledged audio editor/ recorder for music or voice work. There’s also other recording apps, including the very robust HotRecorder, which has a trial version, numerous file formats, searchable conversation database, and is only US$14.95.