Voice Recorder

Voice Recorder captures audio from your microphone in the browser and hands the recording back as a file. You choose how long it runs for, from fifteen seconds to ten minutes, and it stops itself when that time is up.

Starting a recording asks the browser for microphone permission, then feeds the live stream into MediaRecorder, which writes a WebM file with Opus audio where the browser supports that codec. The length is fixed before you start and a timer ends the take: the progress bar counts down the seconds remaining, and there is no pause, no resume and no stopping early and keeping what you have — cancelling discards the take and releases the microphone. Because MediaRecorder writes the container itself, what you download is a .webm file rather than an MP3 or a WAV; run it through the Audio Converter here if you need either of those.

The captured audio is held in memory in the page and written into a file you download; no stream is opened to any server. The microphone track is released the moment recording stops or is cancelled, and the browser rather than this page is what asks your permission to use it.

Taking a spoken note without installing an app, checking whether a headset microphone is actually working, capturing a pronunciation or an idea before it is lost, dictating a few minutes of rough notes, and recording sound to feed into another tool here.

Also known as: mic recorder · sound recorder browser