Greeting card with personalized audio?

October 11, 2005 9:38 PM

How do I give someone a greeting card that has a short recorded audio clip of my choice on it? Surely someone has created a quick and cheap way to personalize a greeting card with a disposable audio device, yes?
posted by parma to technology (5 comments total)

Personalised Recordable Voice Cards -- for the blind.

See also the Voice Pad.
posted by dhartung at 10:35 PM on October 11, 2005

For the modules themselves, you can get them for about 4 British pounds apiece here (scroll down to SOUND RECORDING MODULES, middle of the page, 10-pack).

Blank cards can be had for $14.95 from here.

These results are from Googling "recording greeting card module", YMMV.
posted by tomierna at 10:41 PM on October 11, 2005

This probably isn't specific enough to help, but I recall 2600 doing a piece back in the late 90s about how to take the cards with recorded messages and change them to whatever you wanted.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 8:43 AM on October 12, 2005

I picked up some of these at a Hallmark a few years ago. I have no idea if they still sell them, but at the time there was a wide selection of cards.
posted by Sheppagus at 10:55 AM on October 12, 2005

The voice pad looked promising, but only a single store seems to have them in the UK (all pages would inevitably point there) and at $38 to ship to the US, it's a bit high. The other link looked promising as well, but I was hoping for more of a small, nice looking consumer-packaged recorder instead of something that looks amateurish/home-made. Great suggestions though - thank you all.
posted by parma at 9:14 AM on October 13, 2005