Apple includes a built-in digital voice recorder in the iPhone. Why would you need a recorder? Consider all the times you’d find it useful to have a voice recorder in your pocket — perhaps when you’re attending a lecture or conducting an interview. Or maybe you just want to leave yourself a quickie reminder about something (“Pick up milk after work”).
Make a recording
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After you have that recorder in your pocket, how do you capture audio? When you tap the Voice Memos icon on the Home screen or in the Utilities folder, where it typically hangs out, up pops the microphone.
It’s mainly for show. The two real microphones on the iPhone 4 and 4S are on the top and bottom of the device and the three microphones on the iPhone 5 are on the front, back, and bottom left.
Tap the red record button in the lower-left part of the screen to start recording. You see the needle in the audio level meter move as Voice Memo detects sounds, even when you pause a recording by tapping the red button a second time. A clock at the top of the screen indicates how long your recording session is lasting. It’s that easy. Also, see how to record audio on iPhone 6!
The audio meter can help you determine an ideal recording level. Apple recommends that the loudest level on the meter be between –3dB and 0dB. Speak in a normal voice. To adjust the recording level, simply move the microphone closer or farther from your mouth.
Listen to recordings
After you capture your thoughts or musings, how do you play them back?
You can start playback in a couple of ways, and both involve tapping the same button:
Immediately after recording the memo, tap the button to the right of the audio level meter. A list of all your recordings pops up in chronological order, with the most recent memo on top. That memo is the one you just recorded, of course, and it automatically starts to play.
If you haven’t just recorded something, tapping the button to the right summons the same list of all your recordings. However, nothing plays until you tap a recording in the list and then tap the little play button that appears to the left of the date and time that the recording was made (or to the left of the label you assigned to the recording).
You can drag the playhead along the scrubber bar to move ahead to any point in the memo.
If you don’t hear anything after tapping play, tap the Speaker button in the upper-left corner of the screen. Sound will pump through the built-in iPhone speaker.
How to trim recordings
Maybe the person who left the recording rambled on and on. You just want to cut to the chase, for goodness’ sake. Fortunately, you can trim the audio directly on the iPhone.
Tap the right-pointing arrow next to the memo you want to trim, and then tap Trim Memo. A narrow, blue tube representing the recording appears inside a yellow bar. Drag the edges of this audio region to adjust the start and end points of the memo. You can preview your edit before tapping the Trim Voice Memo button by tapping the little play button.
Your edits are permanent. Make sure that you’re completely satisfied with your cuts before tapping Trim Voice Memo — or that you’ve synced the original back to iTunes on your computer so that you’re working with a copy.
Add a label to a recording
When a memo is added to your list of recordings, it just shows up with the date and time of the recording. You see no other identifier. As memos accumulate, you may have a tough time remembering which recording was made for which purpose. You can label a recording with one of the labels Apple has supplied or, better, create a custom label.
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Here’s how:
From the list of recordings, tap the right-pointing arrow for the memo to which you want to add a label.
The Voice Memo information screen appears.
Tap the right-pointing arrow in the box showing the date and time and the length of the video you just recorded.
Select a label from the list that appears.
Your choices are None, Podcast, Interview, Lecture, Idea, Meeting, Memo, and Custom.
Choose Custom to type your own label (Professor Snookins on Biology, for example).
That’s it. Your recording is duly identified.
You may want to share with others the good professor’s wacky theories. Tap Share from either the main Voice Memos list or the information screen. You then have the option to e-mail the memo or send it as part of a message (an MMS message, text message, or an iMessage).
You can also sync Voice Memos to your Mac or PC by using iTunes.
When you have no further use for a recording, you can remove it from the Voice Memos app by tapping it in the list and then tapping the Delete button.
The Voice Memo app on iPhone has the built-in feature to allow users trim down voice recordings right on the iPhone. Sometimes however we may want to do the opposite, combing two or more voice memos or sound recordings into one file. There are basically two ways you can achieve that. You can export the recordings to a computer, then merge the iPhone voice memos on your PC or Mac.
Alternatively you can download an audio editing app for iOS to join the voice memos together on iPhone. Hokusai is a free audio editor app that can mix or merge multiple audio clips, sound tracks on iPhone. Here’s how it works.
Merge voice memos on iPhone
Run the iPhone Voice Memos app, choose the sound recording, tap Share, then save a copy to the Files app on your iPhone local storage. Repeat the steps to export multiple voice memos or audio recordings from the recorder app to the stock Files app.
Download the free audio editor app for iPhone. Then create a new project in the audio tool. Tap the Import button at the bottom to browse to the voice memos saved in the Files app and add the first voice memo or audio recording track to the audio editor. Then move the playhead to the end point over the horizontal, time-based sound wave of the first audio track. After that go to import the second voice memo or sound recording from Files app to the audio editor. If you need to add extra sound tracks, make sure to drag and drop the playhead to the end of the previous audio.
Optionally you can also play any added sound tracks and trim the audio or music to remove the unnecessary audio segment before you merge them.
Tap the spanner icon at the top right section, select Share Audio from the drop-down menu, save the merged audio to the Files app on your iPhone, any cloud service you use. You can also share the merge music/audio via message, mail, chat apps and more.