Re: copy voice mail messages to computer - settings & filters

luckyalexx@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi,

> I have several voice mail messages that I've saved on my voice
> mail system (with phone company). I have a voice modem and have
> accessed the messages through my modem and saved them on my
> computer. The problem is the quality of the sound.

Telephone quality is just that.

> Can someone recommend an application and/or settings so
> that I'll be able to save the messages with audio quality
> closer to their original sound?

Just what do you mean by that?

> I have cooledit2000, which has a lot of settings and filters,
> but I really don't know how to use it that well.

The very best is probably to do nothing. It will be possible to
influence frequency response, but influence and improve are different
words. You can not drastically widen original frequency range the signal
to noise ratio is not likely big enough for easy improvement, the signal
would most likely sound even more distorted if digital noise reduction
was attempted.

A trained operator with minimum CE2k with the noise clean up addendum
might be able to accomplish more than you can, but audio forensics is
not just "click and done". Magix has a comsumer range Audio Clean Up
package that is modestly, very modestly, priced and comes withgood
inbuilt wizards making it somewhat a "click and done" thing, but I
haven't tested it enough to know whether it would likely work in the
scenario you describe.

There is on my site an example audio clean up, original one channel of a
stereo file, cleaned the other channel, I routinely assert that it
demonstrates the limit of what you can expect to be able to obtain using
what most end users would call "affordable software" and a bit of
patience and skill, but getting the result was not "click and done", it
took more time than I would like to use on such a task. My benefit of
the experiment was that I learned some strategies for audio cleanup that
have shown themselves to be of value to me, but frankly - the more I
learn, the more I listen, the less I want to do because actually
improving the original is not easy. Good signals with good S/N ratio are
easy to clean, but poor signals just tend to get poorer sounding in some
other manner.

> Thank you for you input.

Again, doing nothing is your best strategy on the skill level you say
you have.

> - Alex


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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