BobH42

Currently my wife uses Express Scribe to do her transcription work through a mess of wires that I've set up for her. Because the company she works for only has call-in access, I've set her up with a fairly cumbersome phone-to-computer hookup. I have her plug a splitter adapter into the headphone jack on the phone. She then plugs her headphones into one part of the splitter adapter (since she needs to listen while recording to get job codes and to hit numbers on the phone during the recording process) and the computer line-in port to the other end of the splitter adapter. This works fairly well although the headphone jack (as in many phones) doesn't give the greatest sound and if bumped can have quite a bit of static...as well as the fact that this setup causes her recordings to pick up any sounds going on in the house at the time. I haven't been able to find this setting, but if there was a way for me to listen to whatever is being recorded in Express Scribe as I'm recording it that would COMPLETELY solve my problems. I could then spring for the $20 or so to buy a Radio Shack telephone-to-audio adapter, plug that into the back of the computer and buy a cheap corded phone that I could hook up (without the cable attached to the receiver) for her to use for the keypad entry. Am I just missing something or is there not a way to do this? Thanks in advance!