Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 21:45 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> hank smith wrote:
> > what about recording applications
> 
> I haven't done much recording myself in Linux, but there is a simple 
> sound recorder program that ships with Gnome 2.14 that seams accesssible 
> with orca. In addition the usual text based alternatives such as arecord 
> work nicely for recording wav files.
> I haven't however seen anything accessible up to the quality of 
> Soundforge, Goldwav, etc you would find for Windows.

Audacity offers some higher end features and is written in gtk, so it
should be somewhat accessible if the authors have been thoughtful
enough... have never tried it (for accessibility), though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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