How can visitors leave a voicemail / audio message on my website?

January 14, 2009 8:17 PM

How can visitors leave a voicemail / audio message on my website?

I've looked for a little script that would allow visitors to record their own voice and to leave a message on my website that would either be emailed to me or that I could retrieve somewhere later.

I found references to the Odeo programme which used to be able to do this back in 2006 but that appears not to be the case anymore.

Has anyone come across something like this?

posted by sinbarambam to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

i've come across something like this, but it would have to be written in flash and thus possibly expensive. to wit: youtube and seesmic both have "record your webcam" features.
posted by rhizome at 8:46 PM on January 14, 2009

seesmic video comment ?
posted by Baud at 2:49 AM on January 15, 2009

www.grandcentral.com

Or similar Services
posted by yoyo_nyc at 5:50 AM on January 15, 2009

Youmail.com
posted by yoyo_nyc at 5:50 AM on January 15, 2009

It's probably more complicated than it should be- not only would you have to find a way to record the microphone on every computer that might visit your website, you'd also have to find a way to unmute the microphone, turn up the volume, but not too high, NOT record any other sound devices, etc. And get through anti-spyware software designed to not let what you are trying to do happen...

If integrating it into the website is important, maybe someone like Skype has a soft phone applet that you can fire up when people click its link? Or, yeah, just give a number and tell people that you promise it won't be answered by a human.
posted by gjc at 6:05 AM on January 15, 2009

Response by poster: Yeah, a Skype applet might be good...if it exists. Will look around. I like your out-of-the-box solution of just setting up an extra Skype number, gjc.
posted by sinbarambam at 2:38 AM on January 16, 2009