zoutepopcorn/node-microphone

microphone is a simple module that use `arecord` ALSA tools method to capture sound from a USB Microphone

Information

Package	microphone
Description	microphone is a simple module that use `arecord` ALSA tools on Linux or SoX on OSX & Windows method to capture sound from a USB Microphone

Dependencies

This library need

• ALSA tools installed on the machine (sudo apt-get install alsa-utils) for Linux
• SoX Tools installed on the machine for Windows or OSX

Usage

Simple example

A simple example which capture sound and redirect it to stdout.

var mic = require('microphone');

mic.startCapture();

mic.audioStream.on('data', function(data) {
    process.stdout.write(data);
});

API

startCapture(options)

Start the process and pipe the stdout of ALSA arecord tool to audioStream

By default, the outputing sound are PCM WAVE format, if you want a MP3 format pass true as mp3Output in the options passed in arguments.

(Example : mic.startCapture({'mp3output' : true});)

stopCapture();

Stop the process

audioStream

Give the audio stream where sound captured will be pushed

infoStream

Give an information stream which display informations printed on stderr by the process

CONTRIBUTORS

• @JiaJian (for Windows support)
• @guileen (for OSX support)
• @jrf0110

LICENSE

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Vincent Saluzzo [email protected]

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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