Simple sound recorder wanted

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 15:01:23 UTC 2020


Hey there,

Chris Green wrote:

>My wife wants to make a short recording of her voice using, probably,
>her laptop's built-in microphone (or, maybe, an external one).
>
>What's the simplest sound recording program on Ubuntu/Xubuntu?  No
>extras needed at all, just record and save as FLAC or MP3.

She could use arecord in a terminal window. This command will record
any microphone input until she presses Ctrl + C while the terminal
window has the focus. It then saves the output to the specified WAV
file in the current directory:

arecord example.wav

-- 
Little Girl

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