Re: Light-weighted voice recorder

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:40:14PM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm looking for a light-weighted voice recorder (for quick note taking). 
> 
> I've tried most of the CLI tools, the problem is that none of them have 
> the "pause" feature that I need during recording. 

Have you looked at Ecasound?

	ecasound -i /dev/dsp     -o mynotes.wav -c
	ecasound -i alsa,default -o mynotes.wav -c

Then you can start and stop recording using 't' (start) and
's' (stop).

> I also know many others,
> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/media/audio/ad04-SoundRecording/
> but haven't find a good (simple) one yet. E.g, 
> 
> I know that Audacity is "the" tools, but it is too heavy-weighted for 
> quick voice note taking: multi-track audio editor, digital effects, etc.
> 
> In brief, I hope there is a tools like window sound recorder, which is as 
> simple as possible, but can let me pause during recording.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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Joel Roth