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Give the gift of family stories using Evoca Call Recorder for Skype

December 22, 2011 in Facebook, Social Networking, Storytelling, Twitter by admin  |  No Comments

Hearing Grandma Maria’s stories about growing up on a farm. Nephew Marco’s first words. Uncle Fritz’s recollections about his life in the circus. Capturing and sharing their voices for posterity in a digital audio recording: Priceless.

Evoca offers its easy-to-use Evoca Call Recorder for Skype to capture, share, and archive family stories, oral histories, and special events as MP3 recordings. Skype call recording with Evoca is accomplished “in the cloud” with no downloads or updates required. It is like StoryCorps inside your phone or computer, without having to wait for a van to show up in your town every few years or have family members in the same place to record and preserve their stories.

Evoca enables its subscribers to easily record family stories using Skype or any type of phone, share the audio recordings via email for listening or downloading, save them in a private online album for convenient playback, or post to family and genealogy websites, blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter. Recording the audio stream of Skype video calls is another handy Evoca feature. Family members anywhere in the world can playback recordings from any mobile smartphone, tablet or computer. Burning a CD to send to non-technical family members is simple to do.

Evoca subscribers can interview family members between continents, across countries, or around the table. They also can invite family members to record their own voices using any of these three methods: 1 – Phone or Skype – subscriber registers up to 30 phone numbers or 30 Skype accounts of family members, so their recordings will be saved to the subscriber’s account; 2 – Recording by phone using a dedicated “family storytelling hotline” with an Evoca Local or Toll-Free Plan; 3 – Recording their voices using Evoca’s online recorder on a family website or blog.

Another quick gift idea is to give an Evoca Pro subscription to journalists, writers or bloggers to record their own voice, interviews and conference calls. As She Writes member Monique Fields said, “Every writer in the world should have an Evoca subscription!” The Evoca team agrees. A Free Trial subscription is available before upgrading to a Pro, Local or Paid Plan.

 

Simple English News streams audio on iPhones, iPads and Androids

July 29, 2011 in Blog, Business, Education, Facebook, Humanities, International, Interviews, Journalists, Language, Skype, Social Networking, Twitter by msharpe  |  No Comments

Simple English News [SEN] publishes interesting English language news articles with audio recordings to help ESL [English-as-a-Second Language] learners around the world to read English, listen to the pronunciation, and practice it.

Using Evoca’s universal Evoca smart audio player, a listener can playback audio recordings with any smartphones or tablets – including iPhones, iPads, Androids, and BlackBerrys, and any computer. The Evoca smart player automatically detects the listener’s browser type and streams the right audio player – Flash for Androids and other devices or HTML5 for Apple devices. Three other player widget types are available: Flash, iFrame, and HTML5.

Simple English News Founder Sam Margolis launched the website to make the news accessible to people learning English. Sam operates his global website from his new home country of Hungary with this mission: “Simple English News hopes to be what it says it is. Our desire is to make the news more understandable for those who are learning English.”  Margolis is a journalist, language educator, and former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the small city of Papa, Hungary, where he taught English to high school students. His articles have appeared in The Independent, The International Herald Tribune, Wired Magazine, United Press International, The Globe and Mail, and other publications.

Listen to a Skype interview with Sam Margolis about how his career led to founding and growing Simple English News. Spread the word about how to learn English by posting Sam’s interview to your website, blog with the Evoca smart player and Post to Facebook profile or fan page and Post to Twitter features.

Record audio stream of Skype video calls

July 12, 2011 in "How-To" posts, Facebook, Interviews, Journalists, Language, Skype, Social Networking, the Best Of Evoca..., Twitter by admin  |  No Comments

Evoca makes it easy to instantly record the audio stream of Skype video calls. You can record and retrieve as the host or participant.

Capture the audio during Skype video interviews and conference calls using your computer or Skype smartphone or tablet apps and securely save and store recordings in your online Evoca account.

Email recordings to other call participants or colleagues, post to  any website, blog, Facebook or Twitter, or keep private. Playback on any computer, smartphone, or tablet. Evoca’s web service creates and streams MP3 recordings online “in the cloud”, so no software downloads are required.

Skype video calls to another person are free. Skype video conference calls with 3 to 10 people requires Skype Premium plan sign up following a 7-day free trial.

Access the full news release here.

How to record audio for Skype video calls

After an easy one-time set up, you can record the audio stream again and again with one click. Read more

How to post voice recordings to Twitter

March 1, 2011 in "How-To" posts, Social Networking, Twitter by admin  |  No Comments

Here is how to post voice recordings to Twitter using Evoca. Sign up for an Evoca Express subscription — free trial, Pro, or with a dedicated Local or Toll-free number and see how easy it is to record and post to Twitter.

You can set up the Twitter update feature after you sign up for your Evoca subscription. You can review each recording before posting or automatically [great for audio-blogging during a trip]. It is all self-service. Settings can be changed at any time.

Best Practices for Interviewers in Savannah January 19

January 17, 2011 in Blog, Business, Conferences, Education, General Announcements, Humanities, Interviews, Media, Press, Social Networking by admin  |  No Comments

Want to learn from a pro about how to conduct an interview?  Event details and signup are right here: http://evocainterviewssavannah.eventbrite.com/

This informative Evoca-sponsored program is led by Orlando Montoya, award-winning radio producer at Georgia Public Broadcasting. It is an excellent learning opportunity for experienced and budding journalists, writers, marketers, researchers, educators, filmmakers, historians, family genealogists, and business professionals. View a demonstration of a live interview with Aleq Boyle, founder of the John C. Fremont Foundation, a civics education initiative based in Savannah, Fremont’s birthplace.

Immediately following the program participants are invited to join a lively Speed Interviewing Contest. Participants will be paired up to record a 3-minute interview using using their mobile phones. Prizes include a complimentary one-year Evoca subscription and a one-month Thinc40 membership at ThincSavannah, the event host and collaborative workspace in downtown Savannah.

To recap:

Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Networking and refreshments: 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Program: 6:00 – 7:00 PM

Speed Interviewing Contest: 7:00 – 8:00 PM

Location: ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard Street – Third Floor, Savannah, GA

Give the gift of voice recording by phone

December 22, 2010 in Blog, Interviews, Social Networking, the Best Of Evoca... by admin  |  No Comments

Need a gift for your family that is easy to get online and lasts forever? Evoca enables you to invite your family members to record their stories and memories using any phone. The recordings are saved as MP3 recordings to your secure online account. You can share any recordings you choose via email or copy to a CD. Evoca provides call-in phone numbers throughout the U.S. and around the world. Or give an Evoca subscription to your favorite journalist or writer to record interviews.

As Starbucks would say “Share a cup. Share a story.” Here are a few ways to give the gift of voice:

#1 Give your family memorable recordings of their stories: Sign up for an Evoca Express subscription for $4.95. Call your family members to capture their stories. To learn how easy it is to do, view the Record phone interviews video tutorial. Read more

California Community College system webinar features Evoca video and voice services

October 19, 2010 in Education, General Announcements, Humanities, Media, Social Networking by admin  |  No Comments

On October 20, 2010 at 12:00 noon PT / 3:00 PM ET, Evoca CEO, Murem Sharpe, will deliver “Video and Voice Made Easy by Evoca”, an Industry Update webinar for the California Community College (CCC) system.

The webinar is delivered by ONEforTraining, the educational technology program the educational technology program supported by a grant from the Chancellor’s Office. The @ ONE Project’s purpose is “For training that enhances your effectiveness and inspires your students.” It reaches 112 California Community Colleges serving over 2.9 million students.

Language educators, oral historians, performing arts teachers, and others who use voice in their classes will hear about new features of Evoca Express, Evoca’s innovative voice-to-web service. Its voice-to-web service makes is possible to record using any phone, Skype, or computer mic and publish recordings in online player widgets. Read more

The Mormon Women Project records worldwide interviews with Evoca

September 27, 2010 in Blog, International, Interviews, Social Networking by admin  |  No Comments

When Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project, needed a convenient method for her team members to document the stories of Mormon women located around the world, she turned to Evoca’s Skype interview recording app. The Project’s interviewers simply add the Evoca Call Recorder to a Skype call with the interviewee, just like adding another person to the call to “listen in.” Recordings are instantly saved in MP3 file format to the main Evoca account of the Project.

This global Mormon Women Project has captured compelling stories of a diverse group of women in terms of age, ethnicity, geographic location, skills, interests, and Church membership, born or converted. The interviewees are among the 7 million women who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Neylan McBaine talks about how using Evoca’s reliable and affordable Skype recording app has significantly helped the Project achieve its goals.

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Evoca expands international access for making voice recordings by phone

June 11, 2010 in "How-To" posts, Blog, Education, General Announcements, International, Interviews, Media, Politics, Social Networking by admin  |  No Comments

Recording your voice has always been easy with Evoca using any phone, Skype, or computer mic. For Evoca subscribers using their phones to record valuable content such as interviews, conference calls, voice-overs, opinions, testimonials, language lessons, and stories, we have added France, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. This brings our Evoca worldwide phone coverage to 28 international cities and 34 cities in the United States.

Denmark: +45 78 77 50 08
Finland: +358 94 2419 190
France: +33 1 82 88 25 37
Norway: +47 21 05 82 36

Evoca access currently includes the European countries of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, along with Israel and Australia, and countries in Asia and South America. International numbers are listed at the end of the blog post. If you would like to request a phone number for your country, email Evoca Business Development and we will research its availability.

If you are new to Evoca, you can sign up for a free trial subscription and start recording from your phone immediately:

  • Call, speak, hang up (or listen, erase and re-record)
  • Recordings are instantly saved to your Evoca Express account as MP3 recordings
  • You can email the recording, share it online using a standard viral player widgets, post it to Twitter — or keep it private
  • For subscribers who want to customize player widgets, they can use our Evoca player wizard to brand it, size it, include an image to make a talking photo, select different player behaviors like loops and instant playback, and lots more.
  • It is also convenient to record a phone interview or Skype interview. Conference call recordings are just as easy.

You can learn more at our online How To section at www.evoca.com/how-to and our Evoca YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/evoca. To use another Evoca audio content creation tool, WordPress users can get information about adding the Evoca Audio Recorder plugin to their websites or blogs at the WordPress.org website or the Evoca website.

Here is a complete list of Evoca international phone numbers:

Country Code Number
Argentina 54 (11) 5258 2112
Australia 61 (08) 9282 3242
61 (02) 8307 5228
Bahrain 973 16199299
Belgium 32 (78) 48 02 00
Brazil 55 (11) 3323 5744
Canada 1 514-667-9431
1 647-724-5782
1 778-785-5489
Chile 56 (02) 5814477
Denmark 45 78 77 50 08
Finland 358 94 2419 190
France 33 1 82 88 25 37
Germany 49 030/896 779 388
Hungary 36 (1) 808 8188
Ireland 353 (1) 657 5601
Israel 972 (3) 721 9020
Italy 39 (199) 241 494
Mexico 52 (55) 1168 9693
Netherlands 31 (85) 888 0888
Norway 47 21 05 82 36
Pakistan 92 (21) 701 9222
Peru 51 (1) 708 6777
Poland 48 (12) 396 4544
Spain 34 (91) 151 6695
Sweden 46 (10) 199 2599
United Kingdom 44 (121) 314 2876
44 (2070) 992 146

Cradle of Prayer offers audio listening online using Evoca

April 14, 2010 in General Announcements, Music, Religion, Social Networking, the Best Of Evoca..., Twitter by admin  |  No Comments

The Cradle of Prayer is intent on sharing the traditional Anglican service beyond the walls of All Saints Anglican Church in Mills River, North Carolina. To achieve the goal of being a 21st century online resource for hope, comfort, and compassion, they turned to Evoca, a leading global audio web services provider. Evoca is making podcasting of prayers, scripture readings, and music very easy for members of religious groups.

Cradle of Prayer offers free MP3 listening and downloads of prayers and soothing classic hymns and songs. Evoca supports playback of daily services and weekly collections. Listeners can email single recordings or entire albums to others. Other religious and spiritual organizations podcast sermons and prayer chains using Evoca. While the Cradle of Prayer sends their website visitors directly to the Cradle of Prayer Evoca account, here are two examples of the players that any Evoca subscriber can embed in their web pages:

  • A standard single recording player with a viral share button for posting by visitors to their own web pages, blogs, Facebook, and more, using Evoca’s auto-generated embed code:

  • A customized playlist player displaying images for each recording and including a viral share button. It was created using the Evoca player wizard that generated its embed code:

Stacy Stephens, a co-founder and soprano, opens each service as cantor with a seasonal verse of a hymn, followed by the reading of the prayers and Psalms by co-founder Reverend Paul Blankinship. Anyone can also subscribe to the site to get new recording updates via RSS feeds.

“Evoca makes it easy for listeners of all ages to benefit from our services, which include scripture readings and music. After recording, our cantor simply uploads to our Evoca account, “ said Cathy Rodgers, webmaster of Cradle of Prayer and principal of 7 Waves Marketing. “We then offer our listeners a link to the recordings from our website to listen or download. We have people of all ages who come to our site every day.”

“Cradle of Prayer is an excellent example of how anyone can offer audio listening and downloads right from their Evoca account,” added Murem Sharpe, Evoca CEO. “This fits with Evoca’s mission to make it easy for subscribers — from beginners to experts — to share valuable audio content online.”

About Evoca
Evoca is a leading global voice-to-web services provider that enables businesses, organizations and individuals to easily record interviews, testimonials, opinions, stories, and language lessons using any phone, Skype™, and any computer mic. Evoca subscribers post viral audio widgets on their websites that can share recordings on Facebook, Twitter, websites, and blogs. Evoca Express is available online as a free trial, Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscription. Large organizations, other web services, and telecommunications partners also can license Evoca Enterprise, its multi-media, enterprise-grade platform delivered through a flexible interface.

For more information, visit www.evoca.com or contact Evoca at +1.212.372.7670, toll-free U.S./Canada +1-866-940-9988, businessdevelopment@evoca.com, use our online contact form, or record your message using our Skype call recorder contact: evoca-bizdev-call-recorder. Any Evoca Express subscriber can receive the Evoca Express webinar training schedule by emailing: customerservice@evoca.com.