do any of you know of how (assuming this is possible) to allow site visitors to record audio and have the site capture that and save an audio file from it?

basically, the site would have a functionality like a tape recorder.

hmmm wouldn't it be better if you could allow them to upload files? (preferably limit them to uploading only .wav, .mp3, etc. files)
I would imagine having someone record their voice onto a website would have some issues depending on the sampling rate.

yea, thats what i thought as well, however, i was asked to research this and figured i would start on the boards to see if anyone knew of a way that this was possible.

I've never heard of such thing but of course that doesn't mean it cannot be done :P
Something like that coud be possible with new version of CSS.
I don't know when is that going to happen.

It probably could be done with Flash to a certain extent...but I haven't worked with Flash in almost 6 months :S

i havent heard about anything like that either, but my guess is a java applet could work better for that kind of thing.

java is meant for stream software, so it could record a temporary mp3 file and even uploaded when the user got happy with the result

sounds like an aweful lot of work for something that should be done independantly on the users computer and then uploaded. All sorts of problems can arise when u try to interact the two ... but as dementia said, java is the best suited for this job.

what about this: http://www.vimas.com/wb_record_applet_sdk.htm

???

yup, java applet ... $300 US later

I believe it can be done with flash and flash generator. I noticed with the flash plugin it asks you if you want flash to be able to access your mic and webcam or something like that.