Bug 508551

Summary:	[Feature Request] Add support for recording speaker and microphone audio in screencasts
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	jidckii
Component:	General	Assignee:	Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	data.protection.gdpr, filip.kendes1, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description jidckii 2025-08-21 10:15:23 UTC

SUMMARY

Currently, Spectacle screencast recordings only capture video, without the ability to include audio.

For creating tutorials, demonstrations, or instructional videos, it is very important to have synchronized audio recording. The feature should allow:

- Recording system (speaker) audio
- Recording microphone input
- Optionally, mixing both sources together

Without this functionality, users have to rely on external tools to add narration or system sound, which complicates the workflow. Adding built-in audio recording support would make screencast creation much more effective and user-friendly.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start a screencast recording in Spectacle.
2. Observe that there is no option to enable audio recording from speakers or microphone.

OBSERVED RESULT
An option to select audio sources (speakers, microphone, or both) and include them in the screencast recording.

EXPECTED RESULT
Only video is recorded, with no audio.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Spectacle Version: 6.4.4
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250816
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.16.1-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1260P
Memory: 48 GiB of RAM (46.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 21AK008UGE
System Version: ThinkPad P14s Gen 3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Filip 2025-08-21 18:34:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 474798 ***

Comment 2 gdpr 2025-08-31 04:17:28 UTC

I was going to raise a request for this too.

There are no great tools for recording screen right now, in a way that I can create a hotkey for it and select a rectangle in a straightforward way.

Spectacle does exactly that, but unfortunately it doesn't record the system audio (or any audio at all).