How to record voice chat

if they will be transcripted back to text, what`s the point of using voice with clear default text logging from the client?

i could claim i`m working directly for president/prime minister, give some false info and be done with it, unlike others who just made a survey for ppl to fill in if they and additional info about what it`s about and their info displayed on it with refferences, this is so open for abuse for our lil griefer noise boxes with some simple sound editing

repack and go for option #2 and do it the right way

well if someone knows they will be recorded and its for a research project.

I dont see the issue at all.




My concerns are for people who dont know they are being recorded , which the OP is not advocating from what I can tell.

As you have already stated, you will be interviewing volunteer participants.. which suggests they KNOW what they are being recorded for in advance. No doubt once the conversations are transcripted, you will give them the opportunity to reveiw that, then there can be no laws broken. You can only break the law if you do not divulge that beforehand and give the participant the option to decline.

The mechanics of being actually able to record the conversation is relatively simple, although I wouldn't recomend relying on the voice feature in SL as a method, try Skype, if for no other reason, you are both in control of who is involved.

Actually, I'm GLAD someone's brought up the topic of recording voice chat.
Voice griefing has been decried as an Evil Thing, and it's enabled because voice chat's not automatically recorded in a log like text chat is.

All of us text'ers are ALREADY being recorded.

What makes you voicers think you're exempt, huh? Huh? I'm gonna have my sound recording app open and ready to go at all times from now on. Voice grief around me and you'll get AR'd with evidence. Mwaahaahahaha!

If you're so worried about being recorded, don't use voice--I'd say there is a higher probability of being recorded in real life over Second Life. I guess it's really about how paranoid you are. Some people never even leave their house you know.



As long as there is consent (consent forms can be signed), it's not only legal, but also completely acceptable.

I agree that if these are volunteers, this need not be a big deal.

IRB would not likely require written consent--for a study like this, a verbal description of the study and verbal consent would probably be approved by the IRB. The investigator will also likely have to submit to the IRB a script showing all questions that will be asked, a script of the explanation of the study, and a method to assure confidentiality of the data (such as assigning a code number to each participant rather than using their RL or SL names).