Increasing or decreasing volume in 25% increments.Splitting out parts of the current audio clip.Inserting other audio files at the beginning, end or the desired location of the current audio.Converting the bit rate, bit depth and sampling rate of the audio file.Playing the audio files that it has recorded.In addition, many modern sound cards allow their output channels to be recorded through a loopback channel, typically called 'Wave-Out Mix' or ' Stereo Mix'.īefore Windows Vista, Sound Recorder was capable of: Voice Recorder (known as Sound Recorder before Windows 10 and for the majority of its history) can record audio from a microphone or headset. The original Sound Recorder was removed from Windows 10. When Windows 10 released, however, it was renamed Voice Recorder. Leaked images of a preview version Windows 10 Mobile showed this app too. This second app was a Windows Store app and adhered to the design tenets of the Metro design language. This version of Sound Recorder was included in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, but did not make it to Windows 10.Ī second, different Sound Recorder was introduced in Windows 8.1, thus Windows 8.1 has two distinct apps called Sound Recorder. Its user interface and feature set saw very little change until Windows Vista, when features that lacked practicality were discontinued and Sound Recorder was simplified. Sound Recorder has been in most versions and editions of Windows since Windows 3.0, including Windows 9x, Windows Server and the client versions of Windows NT. Sound Recorder in Windows Vista, featuring the first major change in its user interface

Microsoft voice recorder app