In addition to the alsa-utils' arecord, you might want to familiarize yourself with sox: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Then, if you're up to the learning curve, there's ecasound: http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/ Depending on how serious you are about audio recording, you may also need to familiarize yourself with ffmpeg and possibly also jack. Best, Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > On cli I'm using aarecord with some parameters so we don't record a .wav > file since size is limited. The wav file you can record you can use to > verify your microphone's volume once you listen to the recording. > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 01:26:02 > > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Audio Recording > > > > What are we using for audio recording on linux these days. In the gui. Is audacity still the best one from an a11y standpoint? How about CLI? > > I'm interested in recording from line-in so I can archive some of my tapes. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list