For many business owners, voice mail is as essential a business tool as email and the Internet. Voice mail allows businesses to receive messages from customers and suppliers after hours and other ...

I had a friend ask how to record audio from his computer. I was thinking he wanted to record streaming music, like from Pandora or Spotify, but his intended use was to record streams of his favorite ...

It's always useful to record business meetings, even if only for the purpose of catching every detail. A recording lets you play it as many times as you like, rewinding and forwarding the most ...

Need to make a voiceover, or even a podcast? Then you’ll need to get audio onto a computer. Here’s what you need to know. Whatever kind of video you're making — whether it’s studio or desktop ...

All computers come with a native audio recording program, like Voice Memos for Macs or Sound Recorder for Windows PCs. These programs allow you to record sound using the computer's internal microphone ...

Recording audio is a fairly standard capability on almost any electronic device we have these days, and Windows PCs are no different. Many of us use our computers in such a way that it's easy to ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link From dictating a note you want to share with a colleague about a project, to rattling off a grocery list, to recording a discussion that takes ...

Reader Elizabeth Kimball writes to ask how she might use her laptop’s built-in microphone to record the interviews she needs for her graduate studies. I reply that it can be done with the tools she ...

You know what’s annoying? Tuning in to a podcast that advertises a really great guest, only to find that the whole 30-minute interview with that guest is a phone recording. Phone audio can be so bad ...