Audio Recorder in C#

Shubham Kumar

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Santcer Laurens6y ago
It works in W7 but not in W10.
Robert Bushlow6y ago
Having a little trouble with this. I'm new to C#. Could you post the whole Visual Studio project including winmm.dll so that I can studio it as a whole? thank you.
Microncode6y ago
Greate example :) If you or anyone here need to record audio with more advanced features, feel free to use my audio recorder library: https://microncode.com/developers/cs-audio-recorder/
Phillipp Hutterer6y ago
Hi! So it is working but I got a problem: I have an external mic on my laptop for recording and whenever I record in e.g. Audacity, the quality is far, far better than recording with this, can I somehow change up the quality? There's a ton of noise but it seems to pick the audio from my mic.
Jim Keegan8y ago
Winmm.dll will not let me add it to visual studio c#
Surya Srin8y ago
It is working in my local solution. but ,once it is moved to server It is not working.
Maik8y ago
I need this as a service someone help
Ruchi Mishra11y ago
nice one
Santhakumar Munuswamy11y ago
Good work

Today I am going to show you how to create a program that records voice and plays it (microphone) using C#.

Let’s start with creating a Windows Form Application for this tutorial by following the following steps in Microsoft Visual Studio: Go to File, click New Project, and choose Windows Application and name your program as microphone or whatever you want.
Next, add three buttons named Button1 as record button for recording voice, Button2 as save and stop button, and Button3 for playing the recorded audio. You must design your interface like this.

When design is finished move on to code

Import System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace

using System.Diagnostics;
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Collections;
using System.Drawing;
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;
using System.Data;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

Now, in your code module, create a function named record that will access the winmm.dll

[DllImport("winmm.dll",EntryPoint="mciSendStringA", ExactSpelling=true, CharSet=CharSet.Ansi, SetLastError=true)]
private static extern int record(string lpstrCommand, string lpstrReturnString, int uReturnLength, int hwndCallback);

For record button for Button1, put this code below

public void Button1_Click(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
timer1.Enabled = true;
timer1.Start();
record("open new Type waveaudio Alias recsound", "", 0, 0);
record("record recsound", "", 0, 0);
}

The function named record was called here to open a wav audio file that is named as recsound. Then this will record sound as you click the record button. Note: Provide headset with microphone or speaker in your PC or laptop for you to say the words to record.

For save and stop button for Button2, put this code below

public void Button2_Click(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
timer1.Stop();
timer1.Enabled = false;
record("save recsound d:\\mic.wav", "", 0, 0);
record("close recsound", "", 0, 0);
}

The recsound alias that we initialized in the record button was called here. This button will save the recorded audio file and saved into D directory and will named as mic.wav. Then after saving, we close the recorded sound.

For play button for Button3, put this code below

public void Button3_Click(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
ms = 0;
h = 0;
s = 0;
m = 0;
timer1.Enabled = false;
lblhur.Text = "00";
lblmin.Text = "00";
lblsecond.Text = "00";
(new Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.Audio()).Play("d:\\mic.wav");
}

We used the Play function in Audio to play the saved file in D Directory, the mic.wav, that we recorded its sound earlier.Click first record, say the words you wanted to say, click the save button, and play it.