Where is the built in microphone on the Mac Book Air. I want to record my lectures.

I wish to use my Macbook Air to record my lectures and then upload them into our site for reviewing. I am not sure the best and quickest way to do this?
Anne Sinclair

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There's the best way, and the quickest way and they are mutually exclusive. For best audio a USB voice quality headset & microphone will stop background interference and squelch... If auto-gain locking in on the loudest sound in the room near your computer... then the built in is fine... providing you have no external speakers and turn you down your speaker volume. They are on the left side nearer to the front than the headphone jack.

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