Online voice recorder

Your microphone, as it is. The sound goes from the microphone into a recording in your browser, in mono at 48 kHz, and nothing is sent anywhere. The browser's own noise suppression, echo cancellation and automatic level are off unless you tick the box under the button: they're made for video calls, and they can make a voice sound watery or pumping, which you can't undo afterwards.

While you record, the recording is also saved in your browser's storage on this computer every few seconds. If the tab closes, the browser crashes or the page reloads, open the page again and it offers the recording up to that moment. It stays there until you start a new recording or delete it.

• Get close: a hand's width or two from the microphone beats across the room. Distance adds room echo, and no cleanup removes it completely.
• Watch the bars. The loudest words should reach near the top without staying pinned there; the page warns you when the sound clips or is very quiet.
• A headset or USB microphone beats a laptop's built-in one, which also hears the keyboard and the fan. Pick it from the Microphone list.
• Soft rooms sound better: curtains, a sofa or a rug echo less than a kitchen or an empty office.
• On a phone, keep the page open: the page asks to keep the screen on while you record, since a phone that locks stops the microphone.

The download is the recording itself, with nothing taken out. If the room was noisy, the background noise remover takes out fans, traffic and hum; the voice enhancer also evens out the level for a podcast or a voice-over; remove echo helps in a bare room. To get the words, transcribe it: Whisper writes it out on your computer, also without an upload.

Each of those is one click from the recording, with the same audio, so there's nothing to download and drop again.