microphone input

[Elena Miele]

sorry if the question is dumb,
but I cannot find a way to interact - via Perl - with the soundcard input,
to record audio from the microphone.
There is some module out there that can help me here???

thanks!

Alessandro Magni

 

[Helgi Briem]

sorry if the question is dumb,
but I cannot find a way to interact - via Perl - with the soundcard input,
to record audio from the microphone.
There is some module out there that can help me here???

To get you started, read this article from The
Perl Journal and System Administrators Magazine:

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1272/sam05030002/

 

[Alythh]

thanks,
that's just what I needed, I already started experimenting...
if I may add a further question...
I'm finding that I have some kinds of volume problems on the mike,
although I raised up 100% the levels via aumix.
I mean that with my mike I can record without problems my voice if I
speak almost to contact to the mike, but... what I wanted was a system
able to record any sound/voice/music in a room.
Is it possible, or have I to buy some kind of specialized device?

thanks for your help,

Alessandro Magni

(e-mail address removed) (Helgi Briem) wrote in message

 

[Helgi Briem]

On 9 Jul 2003 01:00:18 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (Alythh) wrote:

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I'm finding that I have some kinds of volume problems on
the mike, although I raised up 100% the levels via aumix.

I mean that with my mike I can record without problems
my voice if I speak almost to contact to the mike, but...
what I wanted was a system able to record any
sound/voice/music in a room.

Is it possible, or have I to buy some kind of specialized
device?

I don't know, as I have never done this myself.

However, I suspect that this comes down to the
sensitivity of the microphone itself rather than
the software used to process the sound.

Typical computer microphones are very
insensitive and (I can't remember what it's
called) only supposed to capture sounds
from very close up.

You will probably need a specialised microphone.

In any case, this problem has nothing to do
with Perl anymore.

I hope this helps.