How to record sound from the microphone?

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Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.suse
Date: 2002-09-05 21:07:39 PST

|Most users just want to play sound. But I would like to be able to record
|sound from the microphone as well.

Works for me, I use arecord. Make sure the microphone is the right type for the sound card input (mine is actually connected to a radio tuner). Some sound card inputs require higher levels than the microphone can supply. Also remember to move up the microphone and input sliders on the mixer panel.

How to record sound from the microphone?

and, additionally, recording can be switched on and off in the mixer! good luck, it works for me, i.e. gramofil for recording. Simon

How to record sound from the microphone?

> So far, I haven't been able to do it. I've tried Broadcast2000 and the
> command line tools 'wavrec' and 'rec'. All of them create files filled
> with silence.

Run aumix, or some other mixer. Increase all what has to do with Line (Line 1, Line 2, Record Level, Line in, Digital in …), even if you have only one line input.

Go to terminal, type:

wavrec -S -s44100 -t(time) music1.wav

Record for few seconds, and then try to play the file.

If this doesnt work, try to increase Input Gain in mixer. But dont increase it too much, because you will get distorted sound…

How to record sound from the microphone?

If you want to play around with the waveform of the file, record a bunch of stuff and mix it, or divide into separates tracks, I've found audacity to be great:

http://www.audacity.org

It DOES require a fair bit of HD space and CPU (or lots of patience ;-) to do this, but it's great fun and a slick way to get old tracks off of cassette or vinyl onto CD.

Rick D.

How to record sound from the microphone?

Gnomemeeting: I have got it up and running under RH7.3 - both gnomemeeting and openh323 tools after fixing "some" problems:

the sound card on the motherboard have not supported full duplex operation (new card installed)
I had to kill sound demon (artsd) to make sound device available to h323 software Use "fuser -uv /dev/dsp" to find out what uses the device
I had to fix firewall rules incoming tcp connections to 1720 port and both way transmission ports 5000:5003

Voice recording: I recorded voice using openam (h323 answering machine) from http://www.openh323.org/

Andrzej

How to record sound from the microphone?

From FAQ: What does OpenAM do? http://www.de.openh323.org/fom-serve/cache/63.html

OPenAM is an answering machine for the H.323 protocol. It will accept incoming H.323 connections and record them to disk. A very simple user interface exists using the DTMF tone indications to get messages played back.

How to record sound from the microphone?

> I recorded voice using openam (h323 answering machine)

or Sound Studio (run studio) that comes with your SuSE.

/Sakis