# Audio recordings

When your account records its audio, each session's audio is kept with its transcript, in **FLAC** (lossless,
about half the size of WAV). Recording is a setting of your account: ask your Gladia contact to turn it on or off.

Download it with [`GET /v2/live/{id}/file`](/api-reference/v2/live/get-audio/):

```bash e2e="skip: needs an account that records its audio (tests/e2e/test_recording.py covers the download)"
curl -L https://eu1.api.gladia.io/v2/live/$ID/file -H "x-gladia-key: $GLADIA_API_KEY" -o session.flac
```

- The recording is ready about 40 seconds after the session ends; before that, and for sessions not recorded, the
  answer is `404`.
- The answer may be a redirect (`302`) to a signed download link: follow it (`curl -L`).
- A `Range` header returns part of the file (`206`), so players can seek.
- `GET /v2/live/{id}` tells whether a session was recorded: `file.filename` and `file.source` are set.

Recordings are kept for your account's audio retention ([Data retention](/data/retention/)), and deleted with their
session.