# Audio In

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**Created:** [May 12, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/audio-in/2354 "2016-05-12T02:24:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/audio-in/2354/4 "2016-05-12T15:35:29Z")

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A USB microphone is probably the best (only?) option. You can record the audio with Alsa as described in this Stack Overflow answer below.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28054731/capture-record-audio-input-in-raspberrypi>

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