Push To Talk

Convenient recording of scratch dialog in Blender's VSE.

Usage

In the Sequencer header click Start Recording to capture your microphone's audio and click again to finish.

Please account for some latency in starting the recording (less than a second).

Configuration

Audio files

Recordings are stored as WAV files called temp_dialog_%TIME% next to the .blend file, with options to choose another location and name scheme.

Microphone

If there is more than one microphone available, a specific one can be selected in the recording configuration panel.

Installing

Requirements

• ffmpeg (Windows and Linux). See instructions for Windows.
• arecord (Linux only). It is part of the alsa-utils package.

Note: macOS does not have additional requirements, but recording only works when Blender is launched from a terminal.
Read how in the Blender Manual.

Installing as Extension

Note: this add-on is not on extensions.blender.org since it requires dependencies.

1. Download the latest extension release from GitHub.
2. Drag&drop the ZIP into Blender.

Updating

1. Download and drag&drop a new ZIP into Blender.
   Newer versions of an extension can simply be installed on top without needing to manually delete the previous version.

Compatibility

Blender Version	Status
5.0+	Supported
4.5 LTS	Supported
4.2 LTS	Supported
4.1 and older	Unsupported

Development

Push to Talk was initially made for recording temp dialog for Sprite Fright at Blender Studio.
It has since gotten improvements and support for microphone recording on all platforms.
It is considered stable and with no plans for future development.
We do address bugs and questions, the add-on is actively maintained.

Contributions and feedback are very welcome.