voice recorder app
 

are there any good-quality voice recorder apps? they must be able to record in 44.1-48khz wav or 192kbps mp3 or equivalent

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Let me know what you find. Although my audio requirements are that high (I would be happy with 22khz wave) I would like to have something.

thanks,

Craig...

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Doubtful that the microphone installed in these things is worth recording at a highter bit rate.

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This isn't a high-quality recording device. High bitrates won't give high quality recordings. If you have a really good external mike, you'll probably get better results, but if you're using the internal mike you're wasting your time and storage space. There is a recorder available, Maemo Recorder. It's plenty good enough for voice memos, and that's about all you can expect using the internal mike.

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In another thread about recorder their is a link to a splitter that allows you to hook up an external mic into the headphone jack.

Has anybody attempted the recording app in KDE?

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In my experience, even the cheapest, crappiest mics in the world will generally sound much better at higher sampling and bitrates than they do at 8bit/8khz.

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Yes, but 192 is overkill. Something in between would probably work...

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dblank is right.

sgosnell, that's an mp3 encoding bitrate--doesn't necessarily have any relationship to the sample/bitrate at which the audio is recorded.

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I haven't tried this yet, (maybe it will be recording too much keyclicking).

But, it would make an interesting option for classroom / note-taking to use voice recording along with typing notes onscreen in some app w/ the iGo keyboard.

Then you can just fold it all up into your shirt pocket. (take THAT Macbook Air! ;))

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I don't think there's anything wrong with the quality of the N800 microphone as mini-microphones go. It's not expensive these days to have a reasonably high-quality microphone, at least enough to benefit from a high sampling rate to pick up higher frequencies (Nyquist criterium - sampling frequency must be 2x the highest frequency you want to record). What's typically more expensive is a microphone designed for directional pickup and noise cancelling so that it records anything but noisy echoing distorted sound in a large room, and full bass frequency range below 150 Hz.