DCOP Sound Recording?

[nko]

I'm not quite sure what forum this should go under, but...

My cousin and I are thinking about building a box for our grampa to record some clips of himself talking. Simple as that. Grampa likes the idea of a dedicated machine, and you *know* we've got plenty lying around!

We know the GUI will be easy to make (Kommander), but actually recording sound is our current obstacle. Is there a DCOP call or shell-based program we can use as our backend for basically just starting and stopping the actual recording? I'm imagining something like:

dcop programName startRecording($fileName)
(and then when you push "stop"):
dcop sameProgramName stopRecording(whateverGoesHere)

Is there such a thing?

[cybertron]

Not sure about integration with DCOP, but arecord is probably already installed and is a command-line audio recorder. Since DCOP is (I believe) just part of KDE you might also want to look into krec or khdrecord.