I need to conduct a phone interview where it would be extremely beneficial to record and transcribe it so that I can reference it while writing an article.

I have a fancy iphone and I thought it would be a standard feature… course not… but there are iphone apps that do it. The only problem is every app seems to have a limited amount of time they will record for (usually 20 minutes) at which point you must give the creators money and the quality is horrible and breaks up.

I did several test runs with a famous comic book artist using the app called call.rec which I was pretty unimpressed with but could have used out of need. Turns out there is a 20 minute limit… go figure.

So I did a bit more research and found out that my Google Voice account could handle the situation as long as it was an incoming call. I already have a fancy Google Voice number that routes to my iphone so I had said comic book artist call that number… it magically routes to my phone… and then during the conversation when I want to start recording, I press 4 on the number pad and tada! A voice announces that the phone conversation is being recorded to both parties and once the conversation ends, I can log into my Google Voice account and listen over and over to the conversation. It was a NY Times blog that actually reminded me to check with Google, cause as usually, they probably have it covered.