| Need a phone line recorder, and inexpensive "attendant" Ok, this looks like I need 2 gadgets, actually.
First, we have a little home based business and need a phone call recorder - something that records every single incoming call on the line and has a USB port where I can save the MP3's from it, if need be. The problem I'm seeing is that people suggest using digital voice recorders with phone line attachments, for this, but we need a dedicated unit that can stay on the line, next to my PC, full time, and catch every conversation. ( We occasionally get threats from a caller. ) I've searched amazon.com and haven't seen anything that looks reliable, and we bought a British box that's a pain to use and hasn't worked from the start.
The second gadget we need, is a phone attendant box. When someone calls, we want to separate the humans from the spam robocalls, so we want a simple announcement saying that if they want to talk with us, press an extension, for example 11 ( or one we pick ). They call this a phone attendant, I found out, but they only seem to come in expensive answering machines that cost a few hundred dollars, and we don't even WANT an answering system, just something that does this one simple task and doesn't cost much, and separates the spam from the real people. |
