How to Record Your Voice on a Computer

"Capturing audio with a record not only lets you remember life's small details, but improves factual precision - laying the groundwork for accuracy and efficiency in professional, academic, and personal contexts" from Anna Rachel Rich, a blogger from Rev. 

The sentence listed above perfectly explained why people might want to record sounds. In addition to those situations, you may also want to record lectures, conversations, meetings, previews, and other sounds for different purposes. Whatever your purpose in recording, this instruction below will introduce everything you need to know about recording and editing sound files on a Mac and a PC.

Part 1. How to Record Audio on a PC

Recording sounds on a PC is not a difficult thing. You can easily do it with this audio recorder - EaseUS MakeMyAudio. This audio recorder comes with the necessary functionalities to record, trim, merge, and convert audio files. If you want to record your voice and cut it to what you want, download it on your computer and follow these steps to start recording and editing.

Step 1. Download and install EaseUS MakeMyAudio on your Windows computer.

Step 2. Open EaseUS MakeMyAudio and choose "Recorder."

Step 3. From the recorder page, choose the audio resource you wish to record from.

Step 4. Select the output format and output directory you wish to store your file.

Step 5. Click "Record" to start capturing your voice.

Part 2. How to Record Your Voice on a Mac

To make basic audio recording and editing on a Mac, you can use either Voice Memos or the QuickTime Player, both of which can be found through the Finder or Launchpad or downloaded from the App Store. To use them, you'll need to prepare a microphone. And if you want some advanced options, you can consider using GarageBand, iMovie, Audacity, or WavePad.

Here we'll mainly focus on making simple audio editing with Voice Memos, QuiteTime, and iMovie. 

Steps to Record Audio on Mac with Voice Memos

Step 1. On your Mac, open the Voice Memos app.

Step 2. Click on the red circle to start recording your sound.

Step 3. Click the red pause button to stop recording.

Step 4. Click "Done" to finish recording, and then click "New Recording" to give the recording a name.

Step 5. If you want to edit the recording, click on the "Edit" button in the top right corner. If you want to share your recording, you can click on the "Share" icon in the top-right corner.

Steps to Record Your Voice on Mac with QuickTime

Step 1. Open the QuickTime Player on your Mac.

Step 2. Click "File" from the top of your Mac's screen, and then select "New Audio Recording."

Step 3. Before recording, you can change the settings by using the arrow next to the "Record" button.

Step 4. Then, click on the red circle in the middle of the gray circle to start recording your voice from your microphone. 

Step 5. Once you've finished recording, click on the dark gray square to stop recording.

Step 6. Then, click on the "File" and click on the "Save..." to give it a name and save it.

Steps to Record your Voice on iMovie

Step 1. On your Mac, open the iMovie app. Press the O key to bring up the "Voiceover" windows. Or you can also click on the "Microphone" button in the toolbar to open the "Voiceover" window instead.

Step 2. In the "Record From" menu, select your microphone input option. 

• Choose "Built-in Microphone" if you don't have an external microphone attached
• Choose "Noise Reduction" to reduce background noise
• Choose "Voice Enhancement" to alert your voice

Step 3. Click the Record button to start recording.

Step 4. Click the Record button again to stop recording.

Step 5. Once you've finished recording, click "Done." 

Part 3. How to Screen Record with Your Voice

If you want to screen record with your voice, you can use this professional screen recording software - EaseUS RecExperts to help. With it, you can record screen, audio, and webcam with simple clicks. Here are some of its key features.

• Record screen with audio in high resolution
• Support adding schedule recording tasks
• Record online meetings or live streams in high quality
• Snapshot feature is available

If you want to know how it works, you can check our previous guide on how to screen record with voice.

The Bottom Line

Those are all solutions to record your voice from the computer, whether PC or a Mac. Based on your needs, you can choose the one you prefer to use. If none of these solutions meet your needs, you can share your options with us by emailing us.