# Recording File options

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/recording-file-options/28469>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [August 14, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/recording-file-options/28469 "2009-08-14T12:54:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![harshat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@harshat](https://community.asterisk.org/u/harshat)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/recording-file-options/28469/1 "2009-08-14T12:54:43Z")

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Hi I am a new user to Asterisk. I am looking to build a dataplan that would enable me to record files when I call on a certain extension. I need to do some processing on this recorded file and play it back to the user. This much I have implemented. However, I want to reduce the time taken for conversion and the way I want to do this is to extract small portions of the file as it is being recorded and thus, without actually waiting for the recording to finish, I can start processing the sound file as it is getting recorded. At the end, I would concatenate all these small files and play back the transformed file.

Can anyone please help me in identifying the correct way to do this using Asterisk?

Thanks - Harshat