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T o n g

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Jan 31, 2009, 1:50:06 PM1/31/09
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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.

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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Nigel Henry

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Jan 31, 2009, 2:10:08 PM1/31/09
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On Saturday 31 January 2009 19:40, 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.
>
> 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

Hi Tong.

MhWaveedit perhaps. I think it's available from the repo's, and does have
pause/resume for recording. Link below if it's not available from the repo.

https://gna.org/projects/mhwaveedit/

All the best.

Nigel.

Joel Roth

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Jan 31, 2009, 6:30:12 PM1/31/09
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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
>
> --
> Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/
> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/
>

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T o n g

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Jan 31, 2009, 11:00:19 PM1/31/09
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:26:18 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:

> Have you looked at Ecasound?

Thanks everyone for the reply.

Nigel's recommendation, MhWaveedit, is exactly what I am looking for --
as simple as possible. Ecasound is powerful, but it's almost 5 times
bigger than MhWaveedit, and presumably can't view wave diagram, as
MhWaveedit does, since its interface is ncurses.

Thanks all the same.

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Joel Roth

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Jan 31, 2009, 11:50:06 PM1/31/09
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:55:13AM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:26:18 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > Have you looked at Ecasound?
>
> Thanks everyone for the reply.
>
> Nigel's recommendation, MhWaveedit, is exactly what I am looking for --
> as simple as possible. Ecasound is powerful, but it's almost 5 times
> bigger than MhWaveedit, and presumably can't view wave diagram, as
> MhWaveedit does, since its interface is ncurses.
>
> Thanks all the same.

MhWaveedit is in an interesting program. I'll probably be
using it in future myself.

Regards

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