Capture/Record Audio in Linux for Milliseconds - linux

Question

arecord -d 10 sample.wav
Here, this command will record sample.wav as a 10 second wave file.
From,
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/arecord1.html
http://linux.die.net/man/1/arecord
Here, in arecord, for duration (parameter -d) only second can be used.
But for my project, I need to record for 600 milliseconds or 2700 milliseconds. Here, is there any way to use millisecond or microsecond?
Do I need to modify ALSA code to achieve this?

Answer 1

You need to change arecord's source code (aplay.c in the alsa-utils package) to change the type and the parsing of the timelimit variable.

Answer 2

You can use the code i made. It's a C program to use alsa simply.
https://github.com/Waxo/ALSA_encapsulation

Answer 3

With ffmpeg, here to record a 5ms wav sample:
ffmpeg -y -loglevel panic -f alsa -ac 1 -ar 44100 -i hw:2 -t 0.05 volt.wav
The sound card list for the -i parameter:
arecord -l
Bonus! To analyse the sample peaks:
sox -S volt.wav -n stats

Answer 4

You can compile and use the ALSACaptureSplitter application, specifying the duration as a floating point number - which will allow you to specify any accuracy you want. For example :
ALSACaptureSplitter -t 0.6 /tmp/test wav
This command will save audio 600 ms of audio to individual files in the /tmp directory.
You can build the application for your system using this email as a guide.
Here is the help output from the ALSACaptureSplitter command :
ALSACaptureSplitter -h
ALSACaptureSplitter : An application to capture input and save to independent files.
Usage:
ALSACaptureSplitter [options] outFileNamePrefix ext
e.g. ALSACaptureSplitter [options] /tmp/out wav
-D : The name of the device : (-D hw:0)
-c : The number of channels to open, if the available number is less, then it is reduced to the available : (-c 2)
-t : The duration to sample for : (-t 2.1)
-r : The sample rate to use in Hz : (-r 48000)
AUDIO FILE FORMATS:The known output file extensions (output file formats) are the following :
8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb amr-nb amr-wb anb au avr awb caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 fap flac fssd gsm gsrt hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3 nist ogg paf prc pvf raw s1 s16 s2 s24 s3 s32 s4 s8 sb sd2 sds sf sl sln smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u16 u2 u24 u3 u32 u4 u8 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wavpcm wv wve xa xi