One of the reasons I want some voicemail capability in Skype is to use the messages for my podcasts. What a great way to get questions and comments that can be played back in a podcast for the listeners. At least that’s the theory! In practice, it’s not as cut and dried as that, simply because the voicemail audio is not saved as a usable file on your local machine. Once you play a message using Skype voicemail, it does save locally; however it is saved in a .DAT file that I haven’t been able to play back outside of the Skype client.

I put my thinking cap on yesterday and approached this issue from a different angle. I use audio recording software for my podcasts, so could I leverage that to save my voicemails in an audio recording? The simple answer is yes, but I should mention that this is a manual effort. In its current beta, Skype VM doesn’t yet offer a way to do this automatically.

Visit kct’s digital world for full details and screenshots of the simple process. Included in the process is a small 83Kb sample .mp3 of the end result.