Recording in Linux

Question

In Fedora 12, what is available FREE, so that i can record my voice as G711u/a or GSM or G729 audio codec's.

Thanks in advance.

N.b: Tried gnome-sound-recorder 2.28.5 but it save file as WAV but doesn't allow to formet as ulaw or other audio codec's

Answer 1

You can record a WAV file and then convert it to g711 format with the sox application.

Answer 2

Audacity

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Answer 3

ffmpeg -i audio.wav -acodec gsm -ab 192k audio.gsm

you need libgsm and ffmpeg