Recording with microphone

A simple demo is included in the official demo projects and will be used as support for this tutorial: .

The demo consists of a single scene. This scene includes two major parts: the GUI and the audio.

We will focus on the audio part. In this demo, a bus named with the effect Record is created to handle the audio recording. An AudioStreamPlayer named AudioStreamRecord is used for recording.

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The audio recording is handled by the AudioEffectRecord resource which has three methods: , is_recording_active(), and .

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On the next button press, as effect.is_recording_active() is true, the recorded stream can be stored into the variable by calling effect.get_recording().

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To playback the recording, you assign the recording as the stream of the AudioStreamPlayer and call play().

To save the recording, you call with the path to a file. In this demo, the path is defined by the user via a LineEdit input box.