Simple sound recorder wanted

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 11:01:23AM -0400, Little Girl wrote:
> 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
> 
That sounds the sort of thing, thanks.  It took me a little while to
find that it's in the alsa-utils package.

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Chris Green