[Debian]Voice recorder - ecasound --> Help

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Charles-Henri Gros <charles-henri.gros+openmoko at m4x.org> writes:
> In this case I suggest using something like
> arecord -f S16_LE -r 44100 | speexenc - a.speex

I was going to suggest it too but it does not work:

$ time arecord -f S16_LE -r 44100 | speexenc - a.speex
Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
Warning: Speex is only optimized for 8, 16 and 32 kHz. It will still work at 44100 Hz but your mileage may vary
Encoding 44100 Hz audio using ultra-wideband (sub-band CELP) mode (mono)

real    0m0.700s
user    0m0.095s
sys     0m0.155s


strace shows

read(0, "RIFF$\0\0\200WAVEfmt \20\0\0\0\1\0\1\0D\254\0\0\210X\1\0\2"..., 4096) = 4096
write(2, "Warning: Speex is only optimized "..., 112) = 112
write(2, "Encoding 44100 Hz audio using ult"..., 73) = 73
open("a.speex", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40021000
write(3, "OggS\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0p\310\232l\0\0\0\0\23N\314\254\1PSpeex"..., 287) = 287
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40021000, 4096)                = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?