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title: Pausing a Recording
slug: api-docs-v1/pausing-a-recording
docTags: 
createdAt: 2025-08-27T12:11:24.154Z
---

Pause a recording using the Autoscriber SDK, this will halt all operations on the Recording Device and the API until recording has resumed.

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```javascript
scribe.pauseRecording();
```
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```javascript
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