The following is a recording I made this evening while waiting for my dinner at 回回锅贴. It is my first real attempt at recording conversations around me using my recently modified phone.

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It was recorded with my phone after some serious changes requiring the purchase of a soldering iron. It’s a young woman on the phone just before ordering. I wasn’t at all sure what she was saying except that her friend is in Hutang, one of the southern districts of the city, and she’ll be heading that way herself soon. I’ve tried to clean up the recording to reduce most of the background noise and other conversations.

I’m looking for a better microphone than the one I’ve got now, which incidentally came from an iSight that I no longer needed. Unfortunately options are limited if I wish to remain inconspicuous. As is I can get reasonably decent recordings in fairly quiet places. I’ve also recently learned that there is no such thing as a fairly quiet place in Changzhou.