If you have a smartphone then you will be able to record audio on it. It’s a bit different for Android and iOS phones so I will link to guides below.

For both phones the process is similar:

1. Open an app that allows you to record sound
2. Record your sound. If it’s just your voice then try to be in a quiet room without a lot of echo and keep close to the microphone.
3. Get the file of the recording to your computer
   1. If you have Dropbox or OneDrive app on your phone you can it to your cloud storage folder for the project.
      1. Then you would go to the cloud storage in the browser computer and download the file
   2. email the file to yourself
      1. Then you will need to check your email on the computer and save the file
   3. There may also be an option to transfer the file directly to your computer.

Phone specific instructions

• ANDROID
  • Recording to an Android phone
  • Alternate Android Instructions
• iOS
  • Recording to an Apple iOS phone
  • Alternate iOS Instructions

A NOTE on Recording. When recording people, record some silence at the beginning. Audacity has a feature that can analyze the room noise and then remove it from your recording. It needs some empty time when nobody is talking to do this.

Also make sure the person is close to the mic (but not touching it). Remember that the further away they are, the quieter their sound is and the lower quality the recording is.