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:

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:

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• 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:

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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.

HealthyPlace.com, the largest consumer mental health site on the Internet, invites real people to record first-person stories using Evoca’s voice-to-web services. With one in five Americans having some form of mental illness in any six-month period, information about mental health topics is in demand. Responding to this growing need, HealthyPlace.com is providing authoritative information and support for people who have mental health concerns, estimated at 35 to 50 million people in the U.S. alone. HealthyPlace chose Evoca to deliver its engaging social media feature, “Share Your Mental Health Experiences”, accessible by calling toll-free 1-888-883-8045. Evoca’s digital media technology service transforms any phone into an Internet microphone.

To hear what other people are saying on HealthyPlace.com, visitors can click on the Flash player widgets located throughout the HealthyPlace.com website. Some examples are:

* HealthyPlace home page: http://www.healthyplace.com/
* Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences feature: http://www.healthyplace.com/support/home/
* Guide to share experiences: http://bit.ly/45xeTM
* Focus on a specific disorder: http://bit.ly/ONBUW

“Before using Evoca, we had people share their stories in writing. But you don’t get the full emotional sense of what somebody is going through if it’s just on paper”, explains Gary Koplin, HealthyPlace CEO and founder. “Most people aren’t great writers. And so to hear them talk and share their story and feel the full emotion in their voice brings their story, their feeling to a whole different level.” Followers can also respond to other people’s audio posts and the e-newletter’s topic of the week.

Evoca has increased valuable user-generated content for this multi-media business, which also includes HealthyPlace Internet TV and radio. Koplin adds, “I love Evoca and the people who come to our website love Evoca. It’s extremely simple to use. All you have to do is dial an 800 number and use it. So there’s no big trick to using it and that’s why our customers like it too.” Experts scheduled to appear on its TV and radio shows also use Evoca to record audio clips that are posted to attract audiences.

New and returning visitors to HealthyPlace.com make audio posts about mental health treatments or any mental health subject. Participants also can talk into an in-browser recorder, another Evoca recording creation method. The HealthyPlace team easily screens, tags, and publishes recordings through viral player widgets using a convenient, secure online dashboard. To embed a player widget into their blogs, websites, Facebook, and other social media, or email it, anyone can click on the player’s share button.

Listen to the interview recording of Gary Koplin, HealthyPlace CEO, by Murem Sharpe, Evoca CEO. Gary has an inspiring story to tell about the founding of HealthyPlace and also shares his experience with using Evoca to empower the voices of HealthyPlace.

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About Evoca

Evoca (http://www.evoca.com/) is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations and individuals to easily create, post, and share fresh, engaging voice recordings using any phone, Skype™, and its browser microphone. Evoca Express is available as a free 30-day trial, Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscriptions. It provides voice recording and online digital content distribution services through its highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform, providing worldwide public phone numbers, as well as dedicated local and toll-free telephone numbers available in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe.

Evoca’s Twitter audio update feature, TweeVoca, enables posting of audio recordings to this popular micro-blogging site. Evoca subscribers can also share recordings on Facebook, MySpace, websites, and blogs by posting digital media players streamed by Evoca. Large organizations and partners can license, Evoca Enterprise, its multi-media 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.

TJ Walker, friend of Evoca and one of the one of the leading authorities on media and presentation training in the world, shares his insights about the power of using stories in your presentations. His message: dialog makes your message genuine. Even if you’re not a born public speaker or joke-teller, the humor and emotion of a true story can put a smile on the faces of your audience members or an “uh huh” of understanding and connection.

Here is TJ’s sound advice, excerpted from his recent blog article:

Most of us use dialogue quite naturally when we are telling our friends and families interesting stores about what happened in our day. Many great humorous stories are told in a dialogue format. But the first thing most business presenters do is to strip the dialogue out of presentations because they think it is somehow not “professional” or “businesslike.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Of course it is possible to say things that are unprofessional during a presentation, but that is a function of what you are saying, not because you said it in an interesting manner.

When you tell a story using dialogue, several positive things occur all at once:

1. By introducing another character, you make your story more interesting.
2. Speaking in dialogue takes you away from the position of a God-like narrator from above and puts you down on the ground in a non-abstract position for your audience.
3. When you say the words that someone else said to you, you change the tone of your voice. This makes you less monotonous to listen to.
4. When you insert dialog, you naturally pause in-between characters. This pausing makes you sound more conversational and more interesting.
5. With dialog, you might even slightly mimic the other person’s tone of voice, thus providing more sound variety for your audience.
6. By using dialog, you are by definition, making your presentation more conversational, less abstract, and therefore easier to follow for your audience.
7. By using dialog, you are necessarily slowing down the delivery of new facts to your audience, thus giving them a chance to catch up and absorb your most important points.

Of course it is possible to give a good presentation without using stores with dialog, but you are making it much harder on yourself if you try. All great speakers sprinkle dialogue throughout their presentations, no matter how complex, difficult or technical the subject matter. All lousy, boring speakers studiously avoid the use of dialogue.

Thank you, TJ for your permission to share your words of wisdom!

Here are a few more ideas from the Evoca team:

• Practice your presentations — stories and all — using Evoca Express. You can use your phone, Browser Mic, or Skype to record and then email the recording to a trusted friend or mentor to give you feedback before you step into the lights. Try it out at: https://www.evoca.com/signup/signup.jsp

• Share your recorded presentation online on your website, blog, and Facebook page using Evoca’s viral Flash player widgets. Use the copy/paste code we auto-generate for you.  If you record your final “live” presentation, you can upload the recording to your Evoca account and then embed the Flash player widget exactly where you want it to appear. Just like this:

• “Tweet” the recording to your Twitter account using Evoca’s handy TweeVoca feature that enables you to “click and post” Twitter audio updates.

• Ask your fans,  supporters, and customers for feedback. You can embed a Browser Mic in your WordPress blog, other blogs and your website to invite audio comments. Keep the recordings private to help your learning process, or if you want to share the comments with the world online, post them using an Evoca Flash player widget.

You can get More Insights from TJ Walker & Jess Todtfeld at http://www.tjwalker.com and www.SpeakingInsider.com.

TJ’s article – Media Training Worldwide  – Copyright 2010

Evoca LLC – Copyright 2010

Inspired by the annual “National Day of Listening” sponsored by StoryCorps and National Public Radio, Evoca makes family storytelling and recording a daily event during the holidays and year-round.

Using 21st century Internet and phone technologies Evoca launched “Every Day of Listening” to enable family members who are getting together at Grandma’s house or even across the ocean from each other to record using any phone, Skype, and a computer mic. With a shared Evoca account, creating a family audio memory album is possible whether family members can get together in person or not.

Getting underway is easy. The family “organizer” signs up online for an Evoca Express Pro subscription and registers up to 30 phone numbers of the family members who can call to record stories, memories, and humor. For family members located in different countries or any Skype users, 30 Skype accounts can also be registered. The organizer can sign up for a free trial subscription to practice. Then any family member with a registered phone number or Skype account simply dials any Evoca public phone number, hears the cheerful Evoca greeting: “Welcome to Evoca. Record after the beep and hang up when you’re done”, talks, and hangs up. The recording is instantly stored in the family account as an MP3 recording. Recording a Skype call starts by clicking on the Evoca Skype Call Recorder contact in your Skype account. Since Evoca is a web service, no software downloads or updates are required.

J’miah Nabawi, national award-winning storyteller, teaching and performing artist, and Evoca’s Artist-in-Residence offered, “Everyone has a story to tell. With Evoca, precious stories of family members, especially our elders, can be captured, shared, and saved for future generations.” He added, “We applaud StoryCorps and National Public Radio for encouraging the telling and sharing of family members’ stories. We are thrilled that Evoca makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to share their stories, short or long, simply by picking up their phone. They also can include singing, music, and laughter for their loved ones to hear.”

Two family members can easily record together with one of them asking questions and the other giving the answers. StoryCorps calls them “interview partners” and offers a terrific “Great Questions” guide. Evoca provides step by step instructions about how to record an interview by phone or Skype. The family can even record a group of people in “conference call” style using Evoca’s phone or Skype features. Evoca also provides its subscribers with a Browser Mic, an in-browser Flash recorder, which can also be embedded in a family genealogy website or blog to collect voice recordings using any computer mic.

The recordings can be kept private, emailed to family members, downloaded to a CD to mail to Grandma, or posted to family and genealogy websites, blogs, and social networking profiles such as Facebook. RSS feeds can alert family members to new recordings that they can add to their  Tunes, iPhones and iPods. Transcriptions are available through Evoca’s online transcription service.

About Evoca

Evoca is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations and individuals to easily create, post, and share fresh, engaging voice recordings using any phone, Skype™, and its browser microphone. Evoca Express (www.evoca.com) is available as a Free 30-day trial, Pro, Local, and Toll-free subscription. It provides voice recording and online digital content distribution services through its highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform, providing worldwide public phone numbers, as well as dedicated telephone numbers available in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe.

Organizations of any size can easily integrate and customize Evoca features into their online properties, marketing programs, education and language training courses, and customer-facing operations. Evoca launched its Twitter audio update application, TweeVoca to enable posting of audio recordings to this popular micro-blogging site. Evoca subscribers can also “share” recordings on Facebook, MySpace, websites, and blogs by posting digital media players streamed by Evoca. Large organizations and partners can also benefit from Evoca Enterprise, its multi-media 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 training schedule by emailing: customerservice@evoca.com.

©2009 Evoca LLC. All rights reserved.  All copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective owners.

Evoca (www.evoca.com) has expanded its voice recording services to instantly convert Apple-supported AAC, MP4, and AIFF audio file formats to MP3 recordings for easy posting online, sharing with customers, audiences, and supporters, and emailing to professional and personal contacts. This increase in services directly benefits users of Apple products and services.

For example, Evoca Express subscribers with an iPhone 3G can create a voice recording, known as a Voice Memo, let it auto-synch to iTunes™, and then upload the Voice Memo from iTunes to their Evoca Express account. Evoca already supports MP3 file upload and WAV upload conversion to MP3 files.

Apple suggests ”Capture a thought, a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording with Voice Memos”. The Evoca team adds: “Then share your Voice Memo online with your customers, audiences, or supporters using Evoca’s Flash player widgets, email, or bookmarking.”

Users of Apple products and services who also subscribe to Evoca Express have many choices for posting and sharing recordings from their Evoca Express account: post online in an audio player widget provided by Evoca; share the widget with their website visitors to post in their own social profiles, blogs, or websites; email recordings to colleagues, followers, students, and friends; download recordings to their computer, burn a CD, or archive it online. Recordings stored on an iPod™ can also be auto-synched to iTunes and instantly converted by Evoca to MP3 recordings upon upload to their Evoca account. In compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), protected WMA files in iTunes cannot be converted.

To experience the benefits first-hand, iPhone, iPod, and iTunes users can sign up for a Free 30-day trial or an Evoca Express Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscription starting at $4.95 per month. As a web service, no software downloads are required. Subscribers can also create voice recordings using any phone, Skype™, and browser mic. Current Evoca Express subscribers get this service expansion at no additional cost.

An audio file format is a file format for storing audio data on a computer system or other digital devices such as smart phones, iPods, and MP3 players. The file formats mentioned above are summarized as follows:

• MP3: The file format extension is .mp3. Evoca converts WAV files and Apple-supported formats AAC, M4A, and AIFF to MP3 format and then stores and streams these MP3 files per the subscriber’s decision to share a recording or keep it for private use. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. A 32 bit 44,100 Hz MP3 recording is stored at 32 bit 44,100 Hz. When Evoca detects a new file’s existing sample rate, the audio gets up-sampled to the next 11,025 Hz if it is not already an interval of 11,025 Hz.

• WAV: Windows Audio Format. File format extension is .wav. Short for Waveform, it is a format used on Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. Since uncompressed WAV files are quite large in size, as file sharing over the Internet has become popular, the WAV format has declined in popularity. It was developed jointly by Microsoft™ and IBM™. Evoca converts WAV to MP3 files upon upload and also in its Phone-to-Web voice recording process.

• AAC: Advanced Audio Coding. File format extension is .aac. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC is best known for being the default audio format for Apple’s iPhone, iPod and iTunes, and is also the standard iTunes Store audio format.

• M4A: File format extension is .m4a.  M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio. An M4A file always contains only MPEG 4 Audio. Apple Computer started using and popularizing the M4A file extension to denote the file was an unprotected (non digital rights management) MPEG 4 Audio file.

• AIFF: Audio Interchange File Format. File format extension is .aiff or .aif. Created by Apple, it is used for audio and video applications. Like any non-compressed format, it uses much more disk space than MP3.

About Evoca

Evoca is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations and individuals to easily create, post, and share fresh, engaging voice recordings using any phone, Skype™, and its browser microphone. Evoca Express (www.evoca.com) is available as a Free 30-day trial, Pro, Local, and Toll-free subscription. It provides voice recording and online digital content distribution services through its highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform, providing worldwide public phone numbers, as well as dedicated telephone numbers available in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe.

Organizations of any size can easily integrate and customize Evoca features into their online properties, marketing programs, education and language training courses, and customer-facing operations. Evoca launched its Twitter audio update application, TweeVoca to enable posting of audio recordings to this popular micro-blogging site. Evoca subscribers can also “share” recordings on Facebook, MySpace, websites, and blogs by posting digital media players streamed by Evoca. Large organizations and partners can also benefit from Evoca Enterprise, its multi-media 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.

Evoca for Educators™ provides educators and students with an easy, affordable method to record language learning exercises and other subjects that benefit from audio recording and teacher feedback.  Now a teacher or professor can register their students’ phone numbers and/or Skype accounts to make it easy to record audio assignments straight from their phones or computers.  It’s a web service so no downloads are required.  Read on.

How Evoca for Educators™ was launched is described by Murem Sharpe, Evoca CEO: “High school and middle school teachers asked the Evoca team for a way that students could use their phones to record practice assignments because many students and families could not afford a computer at home. They needed an accessible, affordable solution to offer to their Advanced Placement (AP) language students preparing for the College Board tests in Spanish, French, German,  and Japanese, and while learning other foreign languages during their cultural and religious instruction.  English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers also wanted their students to practice outside of class.”

The story is somewhat different, but equally compelling for higher education. Sharpe continues, “University and e-learning professors needed a way for their active students to use their mobile phones to record audio assignments. Students are often on the move between classes, work, and home. Evoca is meeting these important logistical challenges and delivering tangible learning opportunities with its Evoca for Educators program.”  As adults, university students often get their own Evoca accounts and email the recordings to their professors to get feedback.

Evoca turns any phone into a digital microphone. The phone is connected to the Internet without the user having to download any software or worry about updates. Students simply dial any of Evoca’s publicly available numbers. Evoca’s technology instantly recognizes the students’ registered phone numbers and saves the recordings to the educator’s Evoca account as digital (MP3) recordings, auto-tagged with the students’ names and course numbers. The recordings are always available online for the educator to listen and email the recording to the student with valuable feedback. Educators also can register their U.S. and international students’ Skype accounts, enabling them to record from anywhere in the world, just like having a global toll-free phone number.

Educators with a blog or website can also invite their students to record online using the embeddable Evoca Browser Mic, an in-browser Flash recorder. After recording, the student can add her/his email address, comments, or other identification in data fields associates with their recordings. Recorder “plugins” are available for popular web programs such as WordPress TypePad, Blogger, and Drupal, as well as a generic plugin for any website, blog, or social media profile.

In addition to foreign language and ESL (English as a Second Language) training, educators in “seated” public and private schools and universities, as well as e-learning organizations around the world are benefitting from Evoca’s Voice-to-Web services for a wide range of audio assignments. Any educator can use the convenient online sign up for an Evoca Express Pro subscription and have their students recording the same day. The program’s applications include:

High schools and middle schools
•     Advanced Placement (AP) foreign language test practice sessions
•     Beginning through advanced level language course assignments
•     English — including ESL (English as a Second Language)
•     Performing arts, writing, poetry, elocution, and speech classes
•     Oral history and storytelling courses
•     Job and college admissions interview role-playing

Universities, colleges, and eLearning organizations
•     Foreign language courses and practice sessions
•     English — including ESL (English as a Second Language)
•     Clinical training and intake interviews — psychology and other professions
•     Performing arts, writing, poetry, elocution, and speech classes
•     Oral history and storytelling classes
•     Clinical intake interview training
•     Job and graduate school interview role-playing
•     Journalism field assignments
•     Scientific research projects

About Evoca
Evoca is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations and individuals to easily create, post, and share fresh, engaging voice recordings using any phone, Skype™, and its browser microphone. Evoca Express is available as a Free 30-day Trial Pro, Local, and Toll-free subscription. It provides voice recording and online distribution services through its highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform, providing worldwide public phone numbers, as well as dedicated telephone numbers available in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe.

Organizations of any size can easily integrate and customize Evoca features into their online properties, marketing programs, education and language training courses, and customer-facing operations. Evoca launched its Twitter audio update application, TweeVoca to enable posting of audio recordings to this popular micro-blogging site. Evoca subscribers can also “share” recordings on Facebook, MySpace, websites, and blogs by posting digital media players streamed by Evoca. Large organizations and partners can also benefit from Evoca Enterprise, its media 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, record your message with our Skype call recorder contact: evoca-bizdev-call-recorder.

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:

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.

We’re pleased to let you know that our Browser Mic plugin for  WordPress 2.7 and above users is available, making it easy for customers, fans, and supporters of WordPress users to record comments, opinions, stories, and feedback.  By adding Evoca’s online Flash recorder widgets to their websites, blogs, and social media profiles, they can increase interaction with their online visitors, who they can invite to add comments, opinions, stories, and language practice sessions of value to the host and the visitors. The Evoca Browser Mic operates like a global toll-free phone number without any telecommunications fees.

Our mission is to increase ROI — Return on Interaction™ — by enabling our subscribers to engage their online visitors with audio commenting. Given the enormous popularity of WordPress.org as a web publishing platform, Evoca is supporting the WordPress community’s interest in useful plugins by offering the Evoca Browser Mic.  Evoca’s Browser Mic attracts fresh, compelling user-generated content every day. The genius of WordPress is that it combines the dynamic content of a blog with the static content of a traditional website.

In addition to the Browser Mic plugin available for WordPress version 2.7 and above, Evoca offers plugins for WordPress 2.6 and below, TypePad, Blogger, Drupal, and a generic plugin that will work on all sites that allow copy/paste HTML and enable Flash objects. Recorders can be embedded on one or more pages to invite comments about different topics. Recordings are instantly saved to the Evoca Express subscriber’s account and can be streamed through Evoca Flash players on any website, blog, and social media profile to share with the world or kept private to share with a customer service team.

Using the Browser Mic online visitors can opt in to tag their recordings with their email addresses and additional typed comments, which is highly valuable information for commercial, nonprofit, and political organizations that are building email lists. Evoca also alerts the subscriber with an email message when a new voice comment is created and saved as an MP3 recording to their Evoca Express account.

“Evoca’s WordPress recorder plugin is a terrific tool to help companies connect with their customers. Using actual voices to deliver customer testimonials, supporters’ opinions, and fans’ enthusiasm makes the online experience genuine and believable”, contributes Jonathan Nery, CEO of the Kloudgroup, the digital media consultancy. “Because it’s our job to create strategies and design for effective web communication, we have embraced WordPress as a web development platform for its agility and easy integration with social media applications like Evoca.”

Here are some FAQs:

How does the Evoca Express Browser Mic plug-in work?
When you install the plug-in, we will place a voice recorder in your blog or website’s navigation bar. Any user that visits your site can leave you a voice recording using this plug-in.

Where will the voice comments go?
Any new voice recording that is made will be stored in your Evoca Express account. You will find the recordings made using the plug-in under “Comments” in your Evoca Express home page.

Can I post the voice recordings to my blog or website?
Yes! All recordings that are made will come with a custom HTML code you can use to post a voice comment into your blog. So, if a reader leaves you a voice comment that you want to share on your blog, all you do is copy and paste the HTML code provided into your blog post, and your readers will be able to listen through the players we provide. The “Share” button on the player enables your online visitors to instantly post it to their Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and other social media sites as well as email and bookmark it.

Does the person who leaves me a voice message need to install any software?
No. The Evoca Express Browser Mic plug-in uses standard browser technology to enable readers to record using their existing settings. All they need is a computer microphone. By simply clicking on the “Record” button, they are ready to go!

Are the recordings saved as public or private?
All recordings are saved as “private” in your Evoca Express account under “Comments”. You can move the recording to your My home page , keep it private, or make it public to stream from a player in your Evoca Express account or that you embed in your website, blog, or social media profile.

How will I know when a reader leaves me an audio message?
We will send you an email each time you get a recording with a handy link to go straight to listen.

About Evoca

Evoca is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling organizations and individuals to easily create, post, and share fresh, engaging voice recordings using any phone, Skype, and its browser microphone. Evoca Express is available as a Free 30-day Trial, Pro, Local, and Toll-free subscription. It provides voice recording and online distribution services through its highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform, providing worldwide public phone numbers, as well as dedicated telephone numbers available in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe.

Organizations of any size can easily integrate and customize Evoca features into their online properties, marketing programs, education and language training courses, and customer-facing operations. Evoca launched its Twitter audio update application, TweeVoca, to enable posting of audio recordings to this popular micro-blogging site. Evoca subscribers can also “share” recordings on Facebook, MySpace, websites, and blogs by posting digital media players streamed by Evoca. Large organizations and partners can also benefit from Evoca Enterprise, its media 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 or using our Skype call recorder contact: evoca-bizdev-call-recorder.

Calling all authors, journalists, publishers, and promotional firms:  Conducting interviews while researching or writing your book or article? Promoting writers, books, or articles?

Evoca makes it easy for you to record interviews using any phone or Skype and then post interviews to websites, blogs, and social media sites.  For your online visitors, real voice recordings bring words, photographs, and writers to life.

Evoca saves your interview as an MP3 recording to your Evoca account. You can keep it private to use while researching or drafting or you can use it in your online marketing campaigns.

How to record an interview using your phone:

• Call your interviewee
  • “Hi Brenda, this is Fred. As planned, we’re going to do the interview today by phone. I’m going to start the interview as soon as I bring in the recording service.”
• Dial your favorite worldwide Evoca phone number
  • Save your favorite Evoca number to speed-dial it any time.
• Join the three lines together to record your interview
  • This phone feature is known as three-way dialing on your Blackberry, iPhone, and most mobile phones and landlines.
  • If you want to interview two or more people at the same time, it’s a conference call. Once you get all the interviewees on the call, add Evoca as the last party on the call.
• End the call and your interview is instantly saved as an MP3 recording in your Evoca account.

How to record an interview using Skype:

Skype™ is a free call recording service that works from your computer. You can host and save an interview recording using the Evoca-Skype call recorder. Add it to your Skype contact list.  Since Evoca is a web service, our Skype recorder doesn’t require any software downloads (or permission from your IT department).

• Make a free Skype call to your interviewee
• Add in the “Evoca Skype Call Recorder” from your contact list to begin recording
  • It’s especially convenient and affordable for international interview sessions and also handy for within-country calls.
  • Interviewee not a Skype user? Make a Skype Out call at Skype’s low per minute rates.
  • If you want to interview two or more people at the same time, it’s a Skype conference call. Add as many people (Skype contacts) to the call as you wish.
• End the call and your interview is instantly saved as an MP3 recording in your Evoca account.
  • Evoca sends you a Skype chat message so you can access it in your account, email or download it instantly.

How to use interviews in your online marketing campaigns:

• Post your interview player widget on your websites, blogs, and social media sites
• With the viral “share” button, invite your fans, readers, and supporters to post the recording widget to their blogs, websites, and social media pages
• Add e-commerce and other promotional links inside the viral player headers and footers
• Email it to your interviewee, editor, colleagues, and followers

Try an Evoca Express free trial subscription. No credit card is required to sign up. During your 30-day trial period you get 15 minutes of recording storage time. Need to start recording an important one-hour interview now?  Sign-up for your Evoca Express Pro subscription to conduct an interview of any length. You get 10 hours of recording storage time and can  add “buckets” of 10 hours any time.  You can also just click to order a transcription online from right inside your Evoca Express account.

Hint #1:  To make it really easy to use the recording or find it later on, create Albums named for your books, articles, or authors. You can easily add each new interview recording to the appropriate album.

Hint #2: Practice an interview recording before you record your first “real” interview. Once you’ve recorded your first interview using Evoca;  it’s like riding a bike, you’ll be able to do it again and again.  You can also bookmark or print this blog article.