How to record sound in OS X Terminal? [closed]

Question

I need to record voice from built-in microphone using only Terminal.app in Mac OS X. Is there any way?

Banksia

You can run applescripts from the command line. That should do it for you. – Mcdaniels

Answer 1

Install brew and then install sox

$ brew install sox

$ sox -d recording.wav

Boride

How do you record audio out only, not the microphone – Docilu

does this interfere with skype or any other recording apps? – Gabionade

/tmp bemmu$ sox -d recording.wav dyld: Symbol not found: _lame_close Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/sox/14.4.1_1/lib/libsox.2.dylib Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/Cellar/sox/14.4.1_1/lib/libsox.2.dylib Trace/BPT trap: 5 – Alamo

Did not work for me, no sound there. though volume input is set to 96. Maybe I am missing something. – Sanguinary

sox can record to ogg? – Columbite

@VitalyZdanevich Yes seems like it, check man soxformat – Boride

@VitalyZdanevich If you're using Homebrew, you will need to install sox with brew install sox --with-libvorbis to record with ogg. (If sox is already installed, you will need to brew remove sox first.) Then you can do sox -d recording.ogg. – Protraction

how to end the recording? At the moment I'm using your instruction of sox -d recording.wav, but am having to end using ctrl + c, the resulting file has no sound, although it has size (it's not an empty file). I don't know if this is a result of me using ctrl+c or what. – Purvis

Answer 2

As epatel mentioned, but using the port system instead:

$ sudo port install sox

Shoshonean

That should be a comment on his question, not a new answer. – Excitable