Steve Jobs promises iPhone voice recorder, hacker delivers

If you did not find the iPhone voice recorder which Steve Jobs had promised when he announced the iPhone in his Keynote address in January, don't worry as Erica Sadun from Tuaw has just developed the latest iPhone hack, the iPhone voice recorder.

Even though the iPhone voice recording utility is a little more than a proof of concept it works and lets you record audio on the iPhone.

The iPhone hacker got the idea of developing the iPhone Voice recorder utility after seeing a lot of interesting calls in the Celestial framework, specifically the AVRecorder class.

The voice recorder saves files in adaptive multi-rate format (.amr files), a format that can be played in Quicktime.

Agreed, the iPhone voice recorder utility might not have all the necessary features one would look for, but isn't it better than not having it, at least the basic functionality works. In fact Eric has already launched an improved version with an app wrapper after the initial release.

Well done Erica!

The iPhone application can be downloaded from here (app version & command-line version), so do let me know how good your voice sounds on the iPhone.

Update:-

Notes from Erica on how to install the utility:

Once the file is downloaded (download links above) it needs to be run from the iPhone. If you download the app version, install it into /Applications. If you download the command-line version just stick it into /usr/local/bin or wherever.

At this time, to load applications, you really need to be able to use Unix. First, you jailbreak your phone, which is a command-line utility. Next you run the ssh installer shell. Then you start sftp'ing over files and making them executable. If this all sounds like something you'll be comfortable doing, check out http://iphone.natetrue.com/ and http://iphone.port21.com/Code/iPhone_SSH_Install_for_Mac.zip

Pretty much all the tools you need are in the http://iphone.port21.com/Code/iPhone_SSH_Install_for_Mac.zip bundle.

If this all sounds to geeky I would suggest you wait for a step by step guide or a GUI based tool which will help you accomplish all of this.

PS: I have tried hard to find out if indeed Steve Jobs had promised a voice recorder in the iPhone however could not confirm it, but the subject line was too tempting not to use it so decided to trust the blogosphere.

More images of the iPhone Voice recorder utility below:

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Comments

[Josh]

So where are the steps to getting this on your phone. I don't understand.

[iPhoneHacks.com Admin]

Hey Josh,

Apologies, I forgot the add the information available on the installation steps in the post.

Thanks for highlighting the issue, I have updated the post with information on installation of the utility based on the comments posted by Erica.

Thanks again.

cheers,
iPhone Hacks

[Eric K.]

Hey, i was just wondering if this is duable for windows, and if you have a step by step for Windows rathar than Mac? i know about Unix stuff like FTPing and Chmoding to make files executable, and stuff like that. Please get back to me, thanks

[LH]

I think this is more interesting than it might seem. A voice recorder is not that useful to me, but since we now have access to the speaker and microphone, as proven by the VRecord App, how much further are we from getting VOIP (ie Skype) on the iPhone?

[Peter]

LH-- looks like skype has been made available for the iPhone, at long last:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2007/08/iphone-pcnow.html#more

[Ethan Becker]

Hey there,
After running Jailbreak for the first time, I've installed a new ringtone. Then, when I launch iTunes, it tells me the phone only has 300 Meg, and can't sync. Any ideas?

I'd love to install the audio record app. I got as far as, getting it into the Applications directory on the iPhone, but it does not show up for use. Help!
Ethan-

[Hackz R Us]

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[Aqeel Ashraf]

Hi, May be it is stupid, but as i am windows user i don't know how to install Voice Recorder through Window,
Kindly guide me in this regard,
Your support will be highly appricated
Regards,

[Aqeel Ashraf]

Hi,
Can any body guide me how to install this voice Recorder application from Windows and how to download and from where to download this software for windows,
Regards

[anatv]

hi, i´m a windows user too and i can not download the app and no idea how to install it.. any help?, thanks

[Ben]

The download link is broken. Any mirror?

[Lido T]

Hi All

No one seems to be interested in answering the question aboou windows , if any one knows, plz guide us , the windows users.

Thanks

[Me]

Its a mac running on a mac os WHY IN GODS NAME WOUL THERE BE A WINDOWS HACK YOU IDIOTS!

[Helen]

could anyone help me? the gofilego files doesn't seem to be working for me :/