Recording audio/university lecture

I am a college student interested in recording lectures. I’ve noticed that voicenotes 1. 1 performs this function but it appears to cost a little dough. Are there other programs that perform the same function but free of charge? Also, is there any consensus as to which audio recording program is most effective in a lecture (80-200 students large) environment? Also, all those voicenotes users out there…… Please let me know what you think of the product as well as what you consider to be its strengths and weaknesses. Thanks

Do you have the latest version of MS Word? It will record. Don't know if it has a time limit. Amadeus is an inexpensive shareware-type audio app that will record. Don't expect a consensus.
Do be aware that audio recordings in uncompressed format (aiff or wav) run about 10 Mb per minute in stereo -- so it wouldn't be that hard to approach a Gb for a single longish class.
The software will have little or nothing to do with "effective" recording in a lecture hall setting, I believe. The problems are acoustical, i.e., distance from sound source, sound reflections causing hollow echoey sounding recordings, that sort of thing.

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