Trying to report system sounds and your microphone on the similar time on Ubuntu, and reserve it to a single audio file?
Reco is a free, open-source audio recording app for Linux, written in Vala and GTK. Though it’s designed for elementary OS it really works properly on Ubuntu and different Linux distributions, and doesn’t look too conspicuous on the fashionable GNOME desktop, both.
Higher nonetheless, Reco is obtainable to put in from Flathub.

Having the ability to seize your voice and your system’s audio output (be it sport audio, software program, music, somebody speaking in a broadcast) concurrently is beneficial for content material creation, be it conducting interviews to incorporate in a podcast, making YouTube movies, or transcribing issues for weblog posts, and so on.
Equally, anybody taking part in an internet lecture, seminar, or assembly could discover it helpful to have an audio copy of the speak to reference, use for revision, take notes from, and so on.
You need to use Reco to report audio calls on Ubuntu. Nonetheless, you have to get permission from whomever you’re speaking to in order that they know you’re recording earlier than you begin recording. And sure, this is applicable even in less-formal conditions like chatting to your mates on Discord.
Probably the most compelling function in Reco for me is that it means that you can select which microphone to report from. When you solely ever have 1 microphone, that received’t sound like an enormous deal. However when you’ve got a number of enter units linked you don’t essentially wish to use whichever one is about because the system default.
Options of Reco:
- Report sounds from microphone and system on the similar time
- Select which machine(s) to report from
- Save to FLAC, MP3, Ogg, Opus, WAV
- Set a delay earlier than recording (as much as 15 seconds)
- Set whole size of recording (as much as 600 seconds)
- Audio waveform proven throughout recording
- Select to auto save recordings or select location every time
- Recording saved if app is stop
If Reco sounds helpful to you, go give it a whirl.
• Get Reco on Flathub