Ruben Jenster <rjenster@xxxxxx>: > > It would be safest to record the whole thing and then go to work on > > it, in my opinion. > > Yes, that's an alternative to the batch processing. > But I still search a programm that automatically stops recording when > there is a long period of silence. A quick look at the ecasound manpage gives the "-ge:open-threshold-%, ..." option with the interesting property of truncating audio buffer's length to zero when the gate is closed again. Maybe this can be abused to your needs? Wolfgang