This
Is becoming a bit of an epic bit of sleuthing.

Where I'm at.

I reasoned that, as these are voice files, the might have been recorded with some kind of Dictaphone and that the hvc format was some sort of propriatry Dictaphone format. So, tried a few google searaches and eventuall got a hit with :

digital voice recorder *.hvc

Problem was it was a protected pdf file and it was in Italian. So I download the pdf file. Cracked the protection and then had it translated by Yahoo. And found that it referred to a Depna Digital Voice Recorder and that one of it's file formats was .hvc. YAY!!

But now I needed to track down the software that can convert hvc files into MP3. The software I need is call Harbinger Converter 1.4

Drawn a blank trying to get that exact software but it turns out that there's something called HBDecoder that works on the same model (I'm presuming that the HB means Harbinger). So off I set to find that.

I found a few other people looking for the same thing and I found a guys e-mail address who said that he had the software and if someone gave him an ftp address then he'd upload it.

Well I don't have an FTP address he can use but I do have a website. I can't give him and ftp account as that would give him access to the whole of my site so I wrote a quick upload script. This lets him go to my site and upload a file to my server via php.

So I've done that and have just e-mailed him.

So, with a bit of luck and a following wind I *might* have the software in a few hours.

Fingers crossed.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 3:28, Reply)