Vitaliy Alexeyev

synshell · Media · syn-audio-recorder

Voice recorder

Voice recorder for the synshell desktop — live waveform, microphone choice, phone noise suppression, Opus/FLAC/WAV.

READMEAUR package: syn-audio-recorder-binAUR package: syn-audio-recorder-git
Recording

Features

  • Recording — live waveform and level meter, pause and resume, discard, save with Enter; Space starts and pauses.
  • Formats — Opus (24–128 kbps, .ogg), FLAC (lossless) or WAV (uncompressed); Opus and FLAC are encoded with ffmpeg.
  • Microphone — any PipeWire source; on a phone, each built-in microphone separately or both together.
  • Noise suppression — the phone's system noise suppression, switched right from the recorder.
  • Recordings list — duration, size and a waveform preview for each; play with ±10 s seek, rename, delete to the trash with undo.
  • Visualization — the wave reacts only while recording (“Auto”) or always, also before recording.
  • Recordings folder — Диктофон inside the Music folder (XDG_MUSIC_DIR) by default, can be changed in settings.
  • Closing is safe — closing the window during a recording saves it.
  • Computer and phone — two-pane layout on a wide window, one column on a phone; 14 languages.
Player Microphone Settings
Player Microphone Settings

Install

Arch Linux (AUR) — x86_64 and aarch64:

yay -S syn-audio-recorder-bin      # prebuilt
yay -S syn-audio-recorder-git      # built from source

Depends on synshell-core (it brings PipeWire and ffmpeg; without ffmpeg only WAV is recorded).

Part of the synshell metapackage: yay -S synshell-bin installs the whole desktop. From source: cargo build --release -p syn-audio-recorder in the synshell repository.

Command line

syn-audio-recorder                                        # open the recorder
syn-audio-recorder --screenshot shot.png --size 1400x900 --scale 1 --page list
                                                          # window snapshot without a microphone
                                                          # (pages: record, rec, paused, list, player, mics, settings)

Part of synshell

syn-audio-recorder is one of the applications of synshell — a Wayland desktop environment in Rust for computers and phones, built on the syngui UI framework.

License

GPL-3.0-only