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Typical voice recording command — mono recording with samplerate of 8 kHz and 8 bits per sample:
sound-recorder -c 1 -s 8 -b 8
sound-recorder is a direct-to-disk recording program. It uses the recording input from the mixer on your soundcard and records it to a file.
cdsound-recorder is an enhancement to sound-recorder which makes it easy to record tracks or samples from a cdrom to a file.
With the play-sample program you can play the recorded audio or play all other non-compressed and compressed wave-files.
$ sound-recorder Sound Recorder version 0.06 (Build on Oct 28 2005) Copyright (C) 1997-2000 by B. Warmerdam under GPL. This program is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Options: -c Number of channels [1/2] -s Samplerate of the recording -b Bits per sample [8/16] -k Keep going if destination file already exists (overwrite) -P Use a higher priority for recording thread -A Audio device (default /dev/dsp) -e Execute this statement after recording (eg 'rm $file') -S The recording time (mm:ss) -f Output format [wav/pcm/cdr/ima3/ima4/ima5] -h This information
documented on: 2008-06-22