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Evoca expands international access for making voice recordings by phone

Friday, June 11th, 2010

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

Evoca makes mobile interview recording easy for journalists

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

With media companies around the world seeking ways to increase their journalists’ reach and productivity, Evoca (www.evoca.com), the leading global voice-to-web recording service, has been cited as the essential tool to do it. Both professional and citizen journalists use Evoca to record and podcast interviews with newsmakers in the political, financial, environmental, entertainment, travel, domestic and international security, and other dynamic sectors. They also can instantly tweet the entire interview recording or use audio clips for radio programs, voice-overs in videos, and audio highlights embedded in online articles.

Evoca subscriber Orlando Montoya, Savannah-based news producer for Georgia Public Broadcasting (http://www.gpb.org/), is the Voice of the Coast across the state and nation.  Montoya explains how he uses Evoca’s phone-to-web service to record timely interviews from anywhere.

Montoya cites “With Evoca I can do interviews for the radio wherever I am with a cell phone. Before, I had to make an appointment, drive to the radio station, and hope the production room was free.” In addition to initiating his outbound mobile call from the field or his home office, he adds, “Now I can give my subjects my telephone number. If I am driving I can pull over; it comes directly downloaded to my account and sends me an email that it’s there. And it sounds good.”

As a veteran reporter, Montoya observes that “in these times that we are in, we are doing more with less and we have to be more efficient as an organization.” He says he has been able to “become more flexible and efficient as a reporter.” Orlando Montoya’s reports can be heard across the state on GPB’s 16-station state-wide radio network and locally on WSVH 91.1 FM in Savannah and WWIO 88.9 FM in Brunswick. Montoya’s beat includes such diverse issues as tropical storms, troop deployments, the environment, political scandals, education, art, music, history and culture.

Instructions for recording an interview using any phone are found at Evoca’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/evoca#p/u/0/f_kpsEus9Ho and online How To guide: www.evoca.com/how-to/create-recordings/record-phone-interviews/. Recording interviews using Skype is just as easy, as the Evoca team explains on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/evoca#p/u/4/FugVzEUtAG8 and in our online How To guide: http://www.evoca.com/how-to/create-recordings/record-skype-interviews.  With interviews as a popular method of communication, many writers, researchers, human resources professionals, historians, genealogists, psychologists, and alumni groups find Evoca an easy tool for both the interviewer and interviewee when in-person meetings are not convenient.

Pointing to Evoca’s mission to offer easy-to-use web and phone services to support journalists, bloggers, activists, and anyone with something to say, Evoca CEO Murem Sharpe recalls, “Evoca chose the tagline ‘Empower your voice’ to underscore this mission.” She adds, “We have become an ideal tool for professional and citizen journalists, bloggers, writers, and activists, who understand that real voices from real people make their stories fresh, compelling, and genuine.” Transcriptions of recordings are also available through online ordering.

About Evoca
Evoca (http://www.evoca.com/) is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations and individuals to easily create and share interviews, testimonials, opinions, stories, and language lessons using phone, Skype™, and its browser microphone. Its online recorder also enables recording through any computer mic. Evoca subscribers can share recordings on Facebook, Twitter, websites, and blogs by posting player widgets streamed by Evoca or use recordings within a private group. Evoca’s YouTube channel subscribers how to use its features to record and share interviews, conference calls, testimonials, comments, language practice sessions, voice-overs, storytelling, and for many other audio-based content creation purposes.

Evoca Express is available online as a 30-day free trial, Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscription. Subscribers access the call recording feature by dialing any of its worldwide public phone numbers or Skype (http://www.evoca.com/skype/), and also can get dedicated local or toll-free telephone numbers in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe to invite their audiences and followers to record news, comments, and opinions. It is delivered through Evoca’s highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform. Large organizations, other web services, and telecommunications partners also can license Evoca Enterprise, its multi-media, enterprise-grade platform delivered through a flexible interface (RESTful HTTP API – applications programming 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 http://www.evoca.com/contact.php, 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.

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Instantly customize your Evoca welcome greeting with a new topic, sponsor message, or celebrity voice

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

To invite customers, fans, and supporters to record a message, our Evoca Express Local and Evoca Express Toll-free subscribers can easily customize their welcome greeting any time —  every day, week, or month — or keep the original one.  The frequency is completely up to the Evoca subscriber because it’s 100%  self-service.  Idea:  Ask your CEO,  one of your sponsors, or your favorite celebrity (or sound-alike) to record the message!

Record a new welcome prompt

  • Dial the number that comes with your Local or Toll-free account
  • Or record using our Browser Mic
  • Or upload a “voice talent quality” welcome prompt – it’s up to you

Activate it instantly

  • Click on My account > Dedicated phone number > Welcome prompt drop down menu
  • Select (name of recording) > Click UPDATE button – you’re done

Hint:  We automatically append the Post-recording options menu that invites your callers to “press any key for more options” when their recording is completed. They will be able to make the following selections:

  • Press “1” to save
  • Press “2” to listen
  • Press “3” to erase and re-record
  • Press “4” to cancel and hang-up
  • Press “5” to repeat this menu
  • Want to disable the post-recording options? Go to  My account > Dedicated phone number > Post-recording options menu > Disabled

    To get started exploring how our Voice-to-Web recording services can enliven your website or blog with customers’ audio  testimonials, readers’ and audience members’ spoken-word opinions, and fans’ shout-outs, we offer a 30-day free trial subscription. You can upgrade to an Evoca Express Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscription any time.