Well it records a seperate audio file. The audio file is only like 5 sec long,thats all I ever did,just testing really. It saves it in an mpg format,so you can listen on the computer. Of course you can alose record an mpeg movie with it and have a short clip you can see on the computer or tv. Actually you can hear the audio tag on the tv with the plug ins that came with it, you can then listen to the audio file on the tv when you look at the pic.