Echo

Project Neon

About this app

Echo is a simple audio recorder with instant playback. Now with optional echo voice effect. To make a recording just hold the record button, release it and hear it played back.

Once you've made a recording you can play it back as much as you'd like. Hit replay while a recording is already playing and it will be played again over the top. You can also record while playing, or play while recording. Sonic chaos is guaranteed.

Echo's not just for fun, it's designed to be the quickest and easiest way to hear yourself. It's a mirror for sound: use it to practice speaking a foreign language, voice training, playing music, or giving a speech. Or just have fun recording your friends.

Best of all, Echo is completely ad-free, so you can use it without distraction.

Please note:
* You can now save externally - this is available from the Recordings screen which you can access through the menu. (To save a recording to this screen, simply tap the blue star at the top of the screen after making the recording.)

* Recordings are saved as uncompressed audio - this means they have great sound quality, but the files can be large. (Technically, Echo records 16 bit, 44.1 KHz PCM mono audio - storing 1 minute of audio uses 5.29MB.)

* Sharing of externally saved files is possible (e.g. by attaching to email, messaging apps etc) - we'll be adding sharing directly from the app soon.

Ratings and reviews

I finally found the app that I was searching for! Now I can record someone speaking my practice language, I repeat what they said and then I play back both and compare. Perfect!! I'm still not sure how to use it without a practice partner who speaks my target language. I'll have to use another source of audio coming through a speaker for the pronunciation sample. Edit: please enable file access permission request. I want to save a file to the phone so I can share it. App must request permission

This is the ONLY APP that gives an "instant playback" without having to save the recorded sound, as far as I looked around. Very useful for short practices of singing, speech, etc, where you want to say/sing something short, listen immediately to what you have said, and try to do it better. Those who want to record something long in order to listen later should use something else. It's not the sales point of this app. I wish there was a mac version of this. Please make one !

Nice app, can be improved in some ways: 1) If you have a long list of recordings and randomly select one and play it, the problem is that you may not remember which one you picked because the app doesn't show the name of the recording once you have selected it. 2) Would be useful if you could rename a recording you have loaded on the main screen rather than having to find it in the recordings list. 3) The auto-naming system for recordings could be a bit better, eg, Echo 1, Echo 2, etc

What's new

It's nearly the New Year, but there's time for a 2022 release:

* Updated to target latest Android SDK version
* Buttons revised to support alternative languages
* Minor UI fix (Record button state was not always clearing correctly)

Wishing everyone a happy 2023!

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