[linux-audio-user] search programm: audio recording with adjustable start / stop level

[Wolfgang Woehl]

Ruben Jenster <rjenster at web.de>:
> > It would be safest to record the whole thing and then go to work on
> > it, in my opinion.
>
> Yes, that's an alternative to the batch processing.
> But I still search a programm that automatically stops recording when
> there is a long period of silence.

A quick look at the ecasound manpage gives the 
"-ge:open-threshold-%, ..." option with the interesting property of 
truncating audio buffer's length to zero when the gate is closed again. 
Maybe this can be abused to your needs?

Wolfgang