[gentoo-user] help me choose a sound recorder

[Zhang Weiwu]

Hello. I am looking forward to use a sound recorder to record my
telephone calls. These telephone calls are business phone calls that
used for business purpose and all phone calls on my line should be recorded.

I am looking forward to have a sound recorder that is:
1 record sound and save as speex format;
2 better be able to auto-start and auto-stop. E.g. when people are
talking on the phone, start a track and save a speex file; when people
stop talking (silence), stop recording and be ready to start recording
the next track. Better one tracker per file;
3 we don't need gui, but I don't mind if it's console app or gui app;
4 I am using alsa in the kernel, if supporting alsa makes sense I perfer
to have alsa recorders;
5 better allow scripting and meta info for saved sound tracks. But it's
fine if it doesn't do so;
6 better also available in SuSE so I can run the same software at home
or in my office;
7 I only need to record one line and not a full-power PBX software.

Any suggestions? Looks audacity is a good option, last year I used it a
while, but I think it is not perfect (for lack of requirement 2), but
don't know its current status.
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Re: [gentoo-user] help me choose a sound recorder

[Jessica Rasku]

Zhang Weiwu wrote:


2 better be able to auto-start and auto-stop. E.g. when people are
talking on the phone, start a track and save a speex file; when people
stop talking (silence), stop recording and be ready to start recording
the next track. Better one tracker per file;



Any suggestions? Looks audacity is a good option, last year I used it a
while, but I think it is not perfect (for lack of requirement 2), but
don't know its current status.


I would recomend audacity as a start.  I know it doesn't do auto-star 
auto-stop.  I'm not sure you'll find that.  You can setup a old 
fashioned line tap to do just that, but it sounds like you'd rather 
record digitally.  My sugestion is that if you can find a setting in 
audacity that can record your work day, you can then export multi and 
get one file per conversation.


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