# What can I use to extract the audio from a user utterance?
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/what-can-i-use-to-extract-the-audio-from-a-user-utterance/6782
**Category:** Archive - Former Random Mycroft Category
**Created:** [June 20, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/what-can-i-use-to-extract-the-audio-from-a-user-utterance/6782 "2019-06-20T13:53:44Z")
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### Author:  [@sh77](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sh77)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/what-can-i-use-to-extract-the-audio-from-a-user-utterance/6782/1 "2019-06-20T13:53:44Z")
Hey guys, basically I want to extract what the user is saying to Mycroft and save it as an audio file. What would be useful in that case? Are there any functions in the messagebus that can help me with this issue?
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### Author:  [@Dominik](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Dominik)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/what-can-i-use-to-extract-the-audio-from-a-user-utterance/6782/2 "2019-06-20T18:29:28Z")
Did not try it myself but in [mycroft.conf](https://mycroft.ai/documentation/mycroft-conf/) there is option “record\_utterances” which - to my understanding of the [source-code](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/blob/dev/mycroft/client/speech/mic.py#L563) - should save the audio when set to true. The audio files can be found in `/tmp` and have filenames starting with `mycroft_utterance`
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### Author:  [@sh77](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sh77)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/what-can-i-use-to-extract-the-audio-from-a-user-utterance/6782/3 "2019-06-20T18:33:43Z")
Thanks, I’ll check that out!