Do you make important calls for work or personal projects? Do you just like long conversations and don’t always remember what you agreed on in the end? For such cases, Android smartphones provide functionality for recording conversations using built-in methods or using third-party applications.

In smartphones with operating system Android has a standard conversation recording feature by default, but recording the other person's speech without warning is illegal in many countries. Before the conversation, you must notify the person on the other end of the line about the recording, so that he has the opportunity to refuse to continue the conversation.

Phone manufacturers often block the call recording option at the kernel level, meaning that even if this option is available, you will encounter technical limitations in the process of connecting it. Therefore, before calling the person with whom you intend to record the conversation, you need to install the recording application in advance and try to use it. If the recording is successful, then there are no restrictions on the phone, but this does not mean that in this way you will not violate the laws of the country in which you are located.

Sometimes the recording application opens and even records sound, but then it turns out that only your voice is saved, and the voice of the interlocutor is missing from the recording. Therefore, you need to check in advance how a particular application works.

How to record a telephone conversation on Android

Many applications have been developed for speech recording, similar in functionality, but different in interface and ease of use.

Recording via voice recorder

The first thing that is easiest to contact is similar cases is a built-in set of applications. Among them you can find “Dictaphone”. However, speech recording is done in a slightly different way from simply running the program. This function must be activated directly during a call from the additional options menu.

Here's how to record a conversation with the built-in application:

Video: how to record a conversation using the built-in application

Recording with third-party applications

In the app store Play Market dozens of programs for recording conversations are presented. They all differ in functionality and, of course, ease of use.

Application "Call/conversation recording" (CallU)

The application has a number of advantages:

• ability to save sound recordings in cloud storage Dropbox or Google Drive, protection of recordings with a pin code from eavesdropping by strangers, the ability to select contacts whose conversation to record;
• you can choose the file format (two to choose from - wav and mp3) and sound quality (this will affect the size of the saved file);
• text hint-instructions that accompanies each settings page;
• You can add a text note to each entry by selecting the entry and then clicking the note icon;
• appearance applications can be customized with a set of built-in themes.

The application does its job well.

Call Recorder (Clever Mobile)

The Call Recorder application from the developer Clever Mobile is one of the simplest and most convenient in its category. The application interface is very easy to master. Here is a list of options that are available in the application and can be set in the settings:

The application starts automatically and records all conversations without the need for the user to confirm the start of recording. Before a particularly important conversation, you should definitely test the program’s operation, because each phone model may have its own nuances.

If the recording did not turn out as required, it is worth checking in the settings whether the entire line is being recorded or only the voice of one of the participants in the conversation. The second important option to pay attention to is the file format. If the recording is choppy or full extraneous sounds, try changing the file format.

Automatic Call Recorder (Appliqato)

The catalog of applications for recording conversations can be replenished with the program Automatic Call Recorder (Appliqato). The particular convenience of this application is that recordings can be saved not only to local storage (on a smartphone), but also directly to the Cloud through your account. Google entry Drive or Dropbox. You won't have to worry about your recordings getting lost. And you can immediately access them from other devices - from a computer or tablet. The program writes in three formats: wav, amr and 3gp.

The application is free and has two versions - basic and Pro, equipped with additional functionality.

Smart Auto Call Recorder

Another program can add to the list of audio recording applications - Smart Auto Call Recorder. The application is not the worst, although its appearance is not very modern. Nevertheless, the application's rating is high enough to try it on your smartphone. Home page The application contains a list of incoming calls, where you can sort calls by date or number. This will help you navigate calls more easily. Similar to other applications, after receiving a recording, you can leave a note about it.

Cloud saving is only available in the paid version. Recordings are protected with a password. One of the unusual features is the ability to delay recording so that beeps do not end up in a file and take up space in memory. For long conversations, the long recording mode is activated. Each menu item is provided with an explanation.

Total Recall Call Recorder

The program is not just additional option, which allows you to record a conversation, and a full-fledged voice recorder application for your smartphone. It supports as many as five recording formats - mp3, wav, 3gp, amr, mpeg4. Synchronization with many cloud services. Recordings can be protected with a password and even started recording remotely via SMS.

Automatic and automatic recordings are supported. manual modes. The finished recording can be saved on your smartphone, in the Cloud, or sent via e-mail or upload to Evernote. This program can successfully be called the most powerful in functionality compared to other similar applications.

Of course, full call recording is not supported on all devices. On some models, root access is required to be able to save the conversation partner's speech.

Table: list of models that do or do not need root access

No root access needed	Requires root access
Galaxy Note 4	Nexus 5
Note 3	HTC One X
Galaxy Note II	Sony Xperia M/V/T
Sony Xperia Z	Note 3 with KitKat version (4.4.2)
Galaxy S4 (i9500 & i9505), S4 Mini	and others
HTC One (M8)
Motorola G (pre 4.4.2)

How to get root rights on Android

If you find your model in the second list, then you need to get root rights.

Be careful when obtaining root rights on Android and resort to this only if you are absolutely sure that you need to record a telephone conversation, because if you obtain such rights, you will deprive your smartphone of protection (the conditions are violated license agreement, as a result of which the warranty no longer applies to the phone). You are unlikely to experience your phone not working after rooting it, but such cases do occur. Your phone will be defenseless against viruses, so you should immediately install an antivirus program on it.

Obtaining root rights through the Framaroot application

Using the Universal Android app

Another option is the Universal Androot application:

1. Download the application file and install it on your smartphone.
2. Launch the application. In the only menu, select your firmware version, then click the “Go Root” button and wait for the process to complete. If all is well, you will receive a message and permissions.

Video: recording conversations on Android

Our list of applications will help the user decide on the initial choice of recording application. In fact, there are many more programs, they all have similar functionality and almost the same names. Therefore, when downloading an application, pay attention not only to the name, but also to the developer, the number of downloads and the rating of the application.

Voice recorder on iPhone. How to use

Voice Recorder allows you to use your iPhone as a portable recording device using the iPhone's built-in microphone, microphone bluetooth headsets or built-in external microphone.

Note: External microphones must be connected to the iPhone's headset jack or dock connector. As a headset, you can use Apple headphones or compatible third-party accessories that have Apple logo"Made for IPhone" or "Works with IPhone".

To turn on the voice recorder, find the corresponding application icon on the screen. (The icon may differ depending on the phone model. For example, )

The recording volume level can be adjusted by changing the distance between the microphone and the sound source. For better recording quality maximum level The volume on the level meter should be in the range from -3 dB to 0 dB.

The voice recorder interface will depend on your iPhone model. But the principle of operation is the same everywhere.

1 Click to start recording. You can also press the center button on your iPhone headphones.

2 To pause recording, tap to stop recording. You can also press the center button on your iPhone headphones.

Recordings made using the built-in microphone are monaural, but stereo recordings can be made using an external stereo microphone.

Note: In some regions, sound effects for Voice Recorder are played even when the Ring/Silent switch is set to Silent.

Play the voice memo you just recorded. Click

Listening to voice recorder recordings

1 Click

2 Tap an entry and press

To pause, press II, to resume playback, press again.

Listening through the built-in speaker.Click Speaker.

Manage voice recorder recordings

View more information.Click next to the entry. The Information screen appears, containing the recording duration, time, and date, and provides additional functions editing and sending.

Adding a title to a voice note.On the Information screen, tap the icon > then select a title from the list on the Title screen. To create your own name, select Custom at the bottom of the list, then enter a name.

You can trim the beginning and end of a recording to eliminate unnecessary pauses and extraneous noise.

1 On the Voice Recorder screen, tap next to the recording you want to trim.

2 Click Crop.

3 Using the time markers as guides, drag the edges of the audio area to adjust when the voice memo starts and ends. To preview your edit, click

4 Click Trim Recording.

Important: Edits made to voice data cannot be undone.

Sending voice recorder recordings

You can also click the Export button on the Voice Memo Info screen.

2 Select Email to open a new message with a voice memo attachment in Mail, or select MMS to open a new message in Messages.

If the file being sent is too long, a message appears.

Transferring records to a computer.

iTunes automatically syncs voice memos to your iTunes library when iPhone connection to the computer. This allows you to listen to voice memos on your computer and ensures that you have backup copy, if you delete this data from iPhone.

When synchronized, voice notes are copied to the Voice Recorder playlist. If there is no such playlist, iTunes creates one. When voice memos are synced in iTunes, they also remain in Voice Memo until you delete the data. If you delete voice memos from your iPhone, they are not removed from the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes. However, if you delete voice memos in iTunes, they are deleted from iPhone the next time you sync with iTunes.

You can use the Music panel in iTunes to sync an iTunes voice memo playlist with the iPod app on your iPhone.

1 Connect iPhone to your computer.

2 From the Devices list in iTunes, select iPhone.

3 Select Music at the top of the screen.

After purchasing a new Xiaomi smartphone, the user wants to ask where the voice recorder recordings are stored and where the conversation on Xiaomi is saved. Why look for voice recorder files somewhere when you can listen to them in standard application on the phone? For example, you decided to listen to the last phone call, but due to lack of volume and poor sound on Xiaomi Redmi 4 (for example) you won’t be able to hear some important points, and this file needs to be sent to a PC or laptop. In this article, the average smartphone user Chinese manufacturer learns how to activate the ability to save a telephone conversation, and where to find it in the phone's internal storage.

How to enable Xiaomi call recording

Saving telephone conversations in mp3 format is a system function, but is disabled by default. Therefore, you need to know how to enable this simple feature on Xiaomi Mi5 or any other Xiaomi smartphone. It doesn’t matter what gadget from the company you own - Xiaomi phones One MIUI system shell is installed. Even if this is not a flagship, but a budget Xiaomi Redmi 4 or Redmi 4X, the function is also present.

• Go to the built-in Phone application;

• Find the “Menu” button near the call key. It is indicated by three small horizontal lines(in MIUI 8 and 9) or lines with dots;

• tap on the “Settings” button;

• click on the “Call Recording” button;

• An automatic call recording system will open, which can be configured in different ways. To activate the ability to record voice files from telephone conversations, next to the corresponding inscription, move the slider to the right;

• you can configure the recording. From the selection of options, the user is asked to click on “All numbers” or enter a specific phone number.

Saving phone calls on Xiaomi Redmi 4 can be disabled in the same “Call Recording” item. The above method is also suitable for those who are looking for how to music files record on Redmi 3S. Recording of conversations is not carried out only on “pure” Android, therefore, if you flashed the device, for example, Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 on a “bare” bucket, then this method will not work!


Ardent fans Xiaomi products They know that not all the company’s smartphones have the MIUI brand shell on board. Among such devices we can highlight the brand new Xiaomi Mi A1. In the world this function illegal, since you cannot listen to other people's telephone conversations.

You can record telephone conversations on Xiaomi A1 using third party programs, which will be discussed further.

Where are call recordings stored?

By default, the automatic call recording system saves voice files in the following path in the phone's internal storage:
MIUI/sound_recorder/call_rec

You can not only open an mp3 file on your phone and listen to it in the player, but also connect your phone to your computer via a USB connection and copy the voice file to HDD PC. In MIUI 8, saved mp3 files are located in the same path.

You cannot change the location where calls are saved. If you are not satisfied with this, there are many on the Play Market similar apps, which save recorded phone calls not only in the smartphone’s memory, but also on a memory card or external USB drive.

Acr – call recording

You can trust a third-party application called Acr to record phone calls. The name stands for Automatic Call Recorder.

The program is famous for its great functionality and can do much more things than the standard utility in MIUI. In particular, two stand out: “ACR - call recording” and “Call recording - Automatic Call Recorder”. They differ in design, but perform the same functions.

The second program is more complex in structure, as it has a large number of functions. The paid version allows you to record both all telephone conversations and some contacts. Here you can activate the function so that sound is captured from the microphone of the phone and smartphone of the interlocutor, and also select the location where the files will be saved. The first application only works on Android versions 6 and above. The functionality here is a little less, it can be configured according to the user’s wishes.

Pros of programs from Google Play Store are that you can record conversations both on smartphones with the MIUI shell and with a “clean” version of the Android OS. This method is suitable for the Xiaomi Mi A1 smartphone.

Dictaphone

The time has come to talk about the built-in Voice Recorder in Xiaomi smartphones. The MIUI shell has a special separate application called “Voice Recorder”. It is needed to capture voice from the built-in microphone. A voice recorder is a useful thing because it helps at school, at home and at work during business meetings. Journalists use this phone function all the time.

To launch Sound Recorder, you need to find the Voice Recorder application on one of the MIUI 9 desktops and open it.

A window with a blue background appears, where you can start recording, but first you need to set up the recorder.

To do this, tap on the gear in the upper right corner of the screen.

A list of options with six items will open:

• conversational speaker – if you activate this setting, you can listen to everything that was recorded using the conversational speaker;
• Recording indicator – The LED will flash when the smartphone is locked. The recorder must be in the “Play” state;
• turn off all sounds when recording - notifications and others voice sounds phone will not play while the function is running;
• renaming records manually – this option allows you to change the file name;
• recording quality – you can select high, standard or low quality with a specific bitrate. Accordingly, the size of the voice file will change;
• delete recordings from Mi Cloud - after clicking on this item, the Xiaomi cloud storage will open with all recorded sounds, which can be deleted by clicking on the corresponding button.

To start the voice recorder, click on the white circle at the bottom of the screen. After that, you will see the recording time at the top.

Even if you minimize the Voice Recorder app, the status bar will turn into a blue bar to quickly go back. You can save the file by clicking on “Stop” and renaming the name.

Where is the recording from the voice recorder saved on Xiaomi smartphones? You don't have to search for them at all if you don't need to send voice files to your computer. To listen to them in the application itself, click on “My recordings” and select the one you need.

Files are saved by Android in a specific folder. Return to your desktop and find the File Manager, File Explorer, or Files app.

A list of folders will appear, but you need to go to the internal storage of the phone and go to the “MIUI” folder. We go to the “sound_recorder” folder and easily find our recorded voice files.

Screen recording

Xiaomi fans are probably following the news of the MIUI shell. Screen recording on MIUI 9, which the manufacturer announced at the end of the summer of this year, was a revelation in the world of this Chinese shell. It allows you to record a picture from your smartphone screen, just like you do on a computer. Please note that recording video from Xiaomi screen smartphone will not occur in best quality, since the shell has not yet been finalized.

The beauty of Android is that even if your smartphone does not have some of the capabilities you need, the list of its functions can be easily expanded using the store. What can you find there! How about recording your conversations? During a conversation it may slip important information, which you were unable to remember or even hear, and it may be convenient to be able to listen to the recording.

As you might have guessed, this is possible with Android. Please note that in many countries, recording telephone conversations is illegal unless the other person is aware that the conversation will be recorded. Now that you are informed, you can follow this link to Google Play for the Automatic Call Recorder app.

This app doesn't just record calls. It has a sufficient range of functions to make it convenient for you. For example, you can automatically save recordings not only locally on your device, but also in Dropbox or Google Drive. This is convenient if you want to access recordings from other devices. Three audio recording formats are supported: 3GP, AMR and WAV.

Time to talk about how the application works. Once you complete the setup, it will automatically launch and start recording as soon as you make or receive a call. To let you know that recording is in progress, a red indicator will light up in the notification area. As soon as you finish speaking, you will receive a notification that the recording is ready. By clicking on the notification, you can add a note to the recording, save it, listen to it, or delete it.

That's all, actually. Automatic Call Recorder does exactly one thing, but the way it is implemented in the application makes it one of the most elegant and convenient methods of recording conversations.

Based on materials from PhoneArena

Voice recorder function various models Smartphones have been around for a long time. She is also on modern gadgets. “Where is the voice recorder on the iPhone?” - you ask. In this article we will answer this and other pressing questions about this audio recording application.

Where is the voice recorder on an iPhone?

"Voice Recorder" is a standard pre-installed application that is included in each of the iPhone models. You can find it on the desktop of your gadget (called by the "Home" button). Where is the voice recorder on the iPhone? If you have not rearranged the icons, then traditionally its icon will be on the second page of the screen.

The search will not be long - the icon is signed with the word "Dictaphone". If on your device iOS is older"seven", then this application will be indicated by a blue icon with a microphone icon. On gadgets with a “younger” version of the OS, there is an icon with an oscillogram - a graphical drawing of a sound wave. Interesting fact: This icon represents the word Apple.

If you still can’t find where the voice recorder is on your iPhone, then do the following:

1. Go to "Settings".
2. Next - "Storage".
3. Scroll through the list to see the Voice Recorder app.

If the program is not found in this way, then there is only one conclusion - it has been removed from the device. You can find it again by downloading this application from App Store.

Where is the microphone located on the iPhone?

We decided where the voice recorder is in the iPhone. Many people are also interested in the location of the microphone. After all, the closer it is to the sound source, the louder and clearer the recording will be. It is important not to close or touch it during this process.

Traditionally, on iPhones, the microphone is located at the bottom end of the case on the right side (if the device “looks” at the owner with the screen, then the microphone will be on the left in relation to you).

How to record sound?

Knowing where the voice recorder is in iPhone 6, 4, 8, 5, 7 and other versions, we will want to use this program. It's quite easy to do this:

1. Launch the application by clicking on its icon.
2. Click on the big red button in the middle of the screen to start recording.
3. During the process, pay attention to the scale - an indicator of the recording volume in decibels will be displayed there. It is important to ensure that the scale is at the average level. When the volume is small, the sound will be quiet and unintelligible, and when it is large, it will wheeze and unpleasantly hurt the ear. In addition, the recording time is displayed on the scale.
4. If you want to pause the process, then tap on the red square in the white circle (the big red record button turns into it). To resume recording - press the big red button on the screen again.
5. You can listen to the recording by tapping on the “Start” icon (inverted triangle). Stop playing - click on "Pause".
6. Pay attention to the volume icon (horn) in the upper right corner. When it is inactive (white), audio will be output from the speaker for phone calls. The horn can be activated (its color will change to blue). In this case, the sound will come from the speaker for listening to music, giving signals, i.e. it will become more audible. In both cases, you can adjust its power using the volume rocker as standard.
7. By clicking on the blue edit icon on the right side (including while listening to a recording), you can trim the audio file, delete it, or cancel the changes.
8. Do you want to save the audio recording? Click on "Done".
9. The file can be saved either under a standard name ("New entry 1, 2, 3", etc.), or after erasing it, under your own.

Working with records

We know where the voice recorder is located in the iPhone 7, as well as in earlier and later versions. But how to find recorded files, how can you work with them? It's simple:

Sending an audio file to your computer

1. Connect your iPhone to your computer via USB. Launch iTunes.
2. Click on the smartphone icon in the program window that opens on your computer.
3. In "Devices" (right side of the screen), select "Music".
4. Be sure to check the "Enable voice recordings" checkbox!
5. Start synchronization.
6. Once the process is complete, again in the right block of the iTunes window in the "Playlists" section, find " Voice recordings".
7. Right-click on the file of interest and select "Show in Explorer..."
8. From the folder that appears, the sound recording can be copied to any other.

So we have looked at a number of issues related to the voice recorder on an iPhone. However, many users prefer to download instead third party applications with a similar function. The reason is simple: the standard program interrupts work when making or answering a call. And when activated in telephone conversation mode, it warns the interlocutor about the recording with a constant beeping sound, which spoils the audio file.