(Remember, state laws differ on whether just you or all participants in a conversation must consent to being recorded. It’s worth noting that a recording session will continue in the background even if the screen goes to sleep - in case you want to record a 40-minute conversation for the nonprofit audio series Stor圜orps, for instance. Tap the red pause button, denoted with two short horizontal lines, to temporarily pause a recording as you are making it, then tap Resume if you wish to continue. A waveform moves across the screen as a timer indicates the length of the recording in progress. Start by tapping the Recorder icon on the home screen, and then tap the red circular record button at the bottom of the screen to begin recording. Google’s Pixel smartphones are among those that do, and their baked-in Recorder app stands out: In addition to an audio recording, it generates a searchable transcript in real time. Your Android device might not come equipped with a voice recorder. Pixel phones create searchable transcripts

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