Oh, Nancy, you've brought me to tears. For another piece I'm writing about "private podcasts" (probably out next week) I was just exploring old iPhone voice memo recordings caught while driving my mom around in her last months with dementia.
She loved to go for these rides because she could converse with out really conversing. "Look, not a cloud in the sky," or "this looks familiar, have we been here before?" (Favorite phrases she repeated so often.... within minutes of each other on a road we took every day for probably 7 years. 🥹) I'll give this nifty little tool a try. I figured there had to be something out there. Thank you so much.
Wow, so great that you thought to record! I rarely thought of this until recently. I was always word and photo oriented, but anything involving other equipment? Not so much!
If you use an iPhone, all you do is open the "voice memos" app and tap start. That's really it. Where cognition isn't an issue, it's always important to ask permission, of course.
Tap stop when you're done. Call in a teen later if you need help, just capture the audio. 🥹
I kept meaning to, and I think this may have been the one time I actually did it for any length of time. That 5 minutes of audio means the world to me now. Audio files are remarkably small when you compare them to video.
I absolutely love this even thought it is not my family!! This is the coolest little time travel find 📽️
I have old movies of my mom & dad and grandparents--even my parents' wedding from 1950, but there is no audio at all. I would love to hear something like what you found.
Oh, Nancy, you've brought me to tears. For another piece I'm writing about "private podcasts" (probably out next week) I was just exploring old iPhone voice memo recordings caught while driving my mom around in her last months with dementia.
She loved to go for these rides because she could converse with out really conversing. "Look, not a cloud in the sky," or "this looks familiar, have we been here before?" (Favorite phrases she repeated so often.... within minutes of each other on a road we took every day for probably 7 years. 🥹) I'll give this nifty little tool a try. I figured there had to be something out there. Thank you so much.
Wow, so great that you thought to record! I rarely thought of this until recently. I was always word and photo oriented, but anything involving other equipment? Not so much!
If you use an iPhone, all you do is open the "voice memos" app and tap start. That's really it. Where cognition isn't an issue, it's always important to ask permission, of course.
Tap stop when you're done. Call in a teen later if you need help, just capture the audio. 🥹
I kept meaning to, and I think this may have been the one time I actually did it for any length of time. That 5 minutes of audio means the world to me now. Audio files are remarkably small when you compare them to video.
I absolutely love this even thought it is not my family!! This is the coolest little time travel find 📽️
I have old movies of my mom & dad and grandparents--even my parents' wedding from 1950, but there is no audio at all. I would love to hear something like what you found.
I am so grateful to my cousin for deciding to send these 70 year old tapes off to be digitized! Always stay in close contact with your cousins :)
Love that title too: “Unreeling the Past.” I put a little blurb into one of my posts about those old films.
https://shellnorman.substack.com/p/felled-trees?r=44j6y7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
What a treasure, and so glad you had the skills to find your mom’s voice and preserve it!