I am quite certain that there is a man page:
$ dlocate parec.1
pulseaudio-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/parec.1.gz
>From the man page itself:
pacat(1) pacat(1)
NAME
pacat - Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAuā
dio sound server
SYNOPSIS
paplay [options] [FILE]
parecord [options] [FILE]
pacat [options] [FILE]
parec [options] [FILE]
pamon [options] [FILE]
pacat --help
pacat --version
DESCRIPTION
pacat is a simple tool for playing back or capturing raw or encoded
audio files on a PulseAudio sound server.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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parecord has no man page
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