How to Recover Deleted Audio Call Recordings from Voice Recorder
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Written By Sumona Chatterjee
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Approved By Rohit Arora
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Updated on 19 Apr, 2023 -
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Summary: Voice recorders are convenient portable devices that are popular among students, musicians, podcasters, journalists, lawyers, and other professionals. There’s so much you can do on the go with your audio recorder such as record lectures, meetings, interviews, songs, podcasts, etc.Sometimes, it happens that you lose your important audio recordings due to accidental deletion, formatting of storage card, or loss during the transfer from voice recorder device to computer, etc. This post shares some of the best and easiest ways to recover lost or deleted audio recordings from a voice recorder.
An efficient way to recover deleted audio recordings is by using voice recording recovery software. Choose a software that can restore any type of audio file, be it MP3, RPS, MIDI, OGG, AU, WAV, M4R, RM, WMA, M4P, or M4A, etc.
However, before using audio recovery software, look for your deleted files in Recycle Bin and backup folders.
If you are stuck in a situation in which the SD card of your voice recorder is not detected by the computer or the audio recordings are inaccessible, either reinstall the driver or run the Chkdsk command on your Windows PC.
Methods to Recover Deleted Audio Files
- Restore deleted voice recordings from Recycle Bin
- Restore voice recordings from Backup
- Recover by using voice recorder recovery software
- Reinstall driver
- Perform Chkdsk
You can use these methods to recover:
- Audio files from any brand or model of voice recorders such as Sony UX series, Olympus DS, TASCAM, and others
- Deleted or lost voicemail messages saved in any audio file format
- Lost/deleted music, podcasts, and call recordings from memory cards, SD cards, USB drive, or computer
- Voice messages and call recordings from Android phones or iPhone using voice recorder applications
Method 1: Restore Deleted Voice Recordings from Recycle Bin
Unless you have not used Shift + Delete on your PC to permanently erase the audio files, look for your audio recordings in Recycle Bin. On Windows PC, go to Recycle Bin. Find your audio file and right-click on it, then select Restore.
If you use Mac, click on Trash in the Dock. Find your voice recording, select it and next choose File followed by Put Back. The audio recordings will be restored to their original location on your computer.
Method 2: Restore Voice Recordings from Backup
Do you take a backup of your voice recorder files on your computer or other storage media? If yes, retrieve the audio recordings from the backup drive.
Method 3: Recover by Using Voice Recorder Recovery Software
Stellar Photo Recovery is a voice recorder recovery software that restores deleted or missing audio recordings from the computer, SD card, memory card, and other storage media.
The software supports audio file formats of all the popular brands of voice recorders including Sony, Olympus, Samsung, Phillips, and others. The easy-to-use audio recovery software is fast and can recover all your audio recording files along with their original name, date, and timestamp.
You can recover hundreds of audio files in any format, be it MP3, WMV, OGG, MP3, RPS, AU, WAV, M4A, OGG, WMA, M4P, ACD, IFF or M4R, etc.
The voice recorder recovery software works in most lost cases such as accidental deletion, formatting, virus infection, etc.
In Steps: How to recover deleted voice recordings
- Download the trial* version of Stellar Photo Recovery on your computer
- Select the drive or media from which you want to recover audio files. Click Scan
- A list of lost audio files appears. Select and Preview your audio recording. You can preview up to 20 MB of files. To access the complete audio files, first, save them.
- Click Recover and Save the audio files at your chosen location
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Sumona is a tech blogger, avid photographer, & technogeek with vast experience in writing about media file recovery tips and tutorials. She has over 10 years of experience in media file recovery/media file repair technology. She is passionate about Photography, Creative Designing, Music, and Exploring lesser-known destinations.
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I wonder for how long the call recordings are kept in the system? Is it worth trying to recover?
Hi Tiffany,
The default standard retention period for exported and voice recording data shall be stored in secure locations and kept for a period of 12 months. Otherwise a recovery tool is always a best decision.
I had saved voice messages voice phone calls on my phone and for some reason. They now delete it they are from the month of December and I do go in and I have saved them now all but one is there and I need. Very important to get the other recordings back other phone Conversation’s phone calls. I don’t know how to do it
Hi Gina,
I would suggest try the above mentioned methods to recover your Deleted Audio Call Recordings.
Are there any chances of my Recordings recovery
Hi Naim,
I would suggest trying the methods mentioned in the blog. Here we have explained the easiest ways to recover lost or deleted audio recordings from a voice recorder.
Is there any way to recover the call recordings from Android?
Hi Rebel,
Yes, we are planning to bring new content related to this topic. Please keep checking our official blog to know better.
I used to record my calls on a third-party call recorder application, now it is missing. What should I do?
If you used a third-party call recording app and made a scheduled cloud backup of your calls, then you can contact the call recording app service provider, or visit the call recording cloud drive. You can find and restore the deleted call recordings to your phone.
Hi, I had accidently deleted some audio file on my Android phone because memory space is full. Can I get back audio recording files on my Android Phone?
Hi Ras, I would suggest, you can try our Android recovery software free version and recover your audio files from your Phone. Thanks!
Hi Sumona, Unfortunately, I had accidently deleted my voice recording on my android phone It’s very important for me and I’m facing difficulty. May I know your software will help me to recover voice recording from my android phone? Please help!
Hi Crystal, As we discussed on our blog our software recover your deleted audio and voice recording from your android phone SD card. If the preview is available then the only recovery is possible. More information you can contact our support team through email support[@]stellarinfo.com and call at +1-877-778-6087.
Hi Sumona, I had record couple of QA session in OneNote, Unfortunately my windows 10 corrupt and I reinstall windows 10. But I didn’t find the audio recording OneNote. Is there any ways to find the recorded audio files in OneNote? Any help would be appreciated?
Hi Bruce, I would like to suggest, you can try another software Stellar Data Recovery for windows and see the preview of recovered files. For more information, you can contact our support through email support[@]stellarinfo.com or call at +1-877-778-6087.
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How to recover deleted call recording
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Hi Md, I would suggest you can try free tool such as Stellar Data Recovery for Android which easily recover deleted call recording in your phone internal memory storage. Thanks!