Ask Slashdot: Recording Business Meeting Audio On an Intranet?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @04:29AM from the wait-til-the-parrot-union-finds-out-about-this dept.

dousette writes "I have been tasked with modernizing our company's board room. Replacing the overhead projector with a more modern LCD projector is a no-brainer, speakers are easy enough to wire off of the HDMI projector, but one of the requirements that has me stumped is the recording of minutes. The existing system uses wired microphones connected to a cassette player, and what I would love to replace this with are some sort of Ethernet microphone that could stream directly to a Windows file share. Does such an animal exist? Do you have any other suggestions for the room that I might be missing?" So if you wanted to bypass a stand-alone system, how would you go about dumping audio straight to your network?

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if you want it on a torrent, yeah, go for it by swschrad · 2012-08-21 05:10 · Score: 3, Insightful

because if it's on a machine accessable to The Connected Internet, and anybody who wants to punk or bleed you wants it, they'll find a way to it.
there's still such a thing as a microcassette recorder, and such a thing as a digital recorder, that you can start, set next to the conferencing phone, and have a clerk type up. not all technology needs to migrate to the cloud by 5 pm today.

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Re:Who takes the minutes? by hesiod · 2012-08-21 05:42 · Score: 3, Insightful

The auto-transcribed document wouldn't be able to identify who is speaking at any given time.