Hi,

I have a telephone system that records all conversations as a standard
WAV file. This Wav files are good for training purposes but no good for
legal use.

To make them usable in a court of law the recordings must be in an
uneditable format. could this be done with VB Script?

Regards

Ian

Re: Changing Wav Files by Al

Al
Mon Feb 20 00:38:54 CST 2006


"Crumb" <rowan.ian@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1140393362.576474.149370@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a telephone system that records all conversations as a standard
> WAV file. This Wav files are good for training purposes but no good for
> legal use.
>
> To make them usable in a court of law the recordings must be in an
> uneditable format.

If that is the case, then you may need to modify or replace your telephone
system. If it records in .WAV format, and you create a script or get a
program to convert that to one of the approved uneditable formats, it will
*still* have existed in editable form at some point.

/Al



Re: Changing Wav Files by mr_unreliable

mr_unreliable
Mon Feb 20 15:27:20 CST 2006

hi Crumb,

This sounds like a "Catch 22" question.

There are countless utilities for transforming audio files from
one format to another, but the very act of transforming them
_IS_ editing.

That is, you are reading in data, manipulating it, and then
writing it out in some other format. Sorry, but that sounds
like editing to me.

And besides, anything is "editable". All it takes is somebody
more clever the "break the lock" than the person who created
the lock in the first place.

Just what exactly is acceptable to your legal system as an
"un-editable" file???

cheers, jw

Crumb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a telephone system that records all conversations as a standard
> WAV file. This Wav files are good for training purposes but no good for
> legal use.
>
> To make them usable in a court of law the recordings must be in an
> uneditable format. could this be done with VB Script?
>
> Regards
>
> Ian
>