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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Re:Mini-PC and pulseaudio by CanHasDIY · 2012-08-21 04:39 · Score: 4, Interesting

As far as I know, you could put a linux-box there with pulseaudio and make the input device network-available. You could record then with any pulseaudio-system anywhere.
This, this, this.

Raspberry Pi, anyone?

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Re:Mini-PC and pulseaudio by MightyYar · 2012-08-21 04:45 · Score: 4, Interesting

Careful, you might not want the boardroom audio available to all.
The safest path might be to replace the tape deck with a solid state recorder with removable storage. I've hooked ours up to an iPod in the past.

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