"Andy Evans" wrote in message
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I want high quality sound from the telephone for making long distance
coaching calls. So I want to use a binaural headset and microphone. I
could get a seperate headset like the Plantronics ones, but it seems
to me that I could just link the telephone to my Mac computer and
listen and record (I'd like to record too) etc from the computer,
using the headset and microphone I use for Skype already.

Do I need an interface, or is the line in and line out to the
telephone just normal 2 volts type line level? In other words I could
make a DIY interconnect with just phono plugs for the computer line
in/
line out sockets?

All help welcome for this. I can solder connections and am handy with
sound equipment.

andy

I use Skype for our radio-station phone-ins as it sounds a lot better than
using a hybrid on the analogue system.
I have a good quality sound card and just use the audio line-level in and
out of the Left channel and ignore the other. This of course means that the
telephone call is in mono, but there's no stereo telephony yet.

Skype works very well for speech, but is useless for passing music, really
horrible. It also uses a low sample rate (haven't found out what yet) so
needs a sound card that will handle more than just 44.1 and 48k.

As to recording the telephone conversation, I use an external logger, but
there are ways I'm told, of recording Skype.

S.