M. Adam Davis wrote:
> I don't think you could/should put much intelligence into
> the recording bit.  It might be fun the first few times you proved to
> your wife that what she said 10 minutes ago was unintelligible, but I
> imagine that behavior would be quickly stifled.

It depends on what you mean by "intelligence." Based on what William Chops 
Westfield said,

> Are there any tools that will take that GB of voice recording (mostly
> rather quiet?) and extract the "interesting" parts (ie where there is
> actually something to listen too?)  Or is it better to try to put that
> intelligence on the recording side?

..it is definitely worthwhile to stop recording if there isn't anything to 
listen to. At the very least, don't record the silence (have a preset 
threshold). There are also clever ways to eliminate at least some of the 
background noise (record to buffer first, analyze -- then decide whether to 
save that bit or not).

Vitaliy 

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