Re: testing microphone - how?
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +0000, Lisi Reisz posted:
> >>>> I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the
> >>>> same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the
> >>>> applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).
> >
> > have you looked at arecord
> >
> > arecord, aplay - command-line sound recorder and player for ALSA
> > soundcard driver
>
> Yes, I second that.
>
> Try with the following command (duration is in seconds):
> ~$> arecord -D plug:hw:1 --duration=60 audio_sample.wav
>
> It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
> which device number to use) your devices using:
>
> ~$ arecord -l
Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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