- Go to Finder
- press CMD+SHIFT+A
- go to QuickTime Player
- select it and open it
- once open go to the Menu Bar
- click FILE
- then click NEW AUDIO RECORDING
the input should already be set to the internal microphone
- now click the round button with the red dot in it to record your voice
- click that button again (now it has a black square in it) to stop the recording once you finished what you wanted to record
- then go to FILE and click SAVE AS and save it where you want
Sadly QT Player is not smart enough to save it as a .wav or .aif or .mp3 or any other audio file format, but saves it as QuickTime movie (.mov), thus you can use iTunes to convert it to a proper format.
To do that
- open the .mov in iTunes (add it to the library)
- go to iTunes Preferences (CMD+,)
- then go to the GENERAL section in there
- then click IMPORT SETTINGS at the bottom
- under IMPORT USING select the appropriate format
(WAV and AIFF encoder are lossless and take about 8 MB for one minute of audio,
AAC and MP3 encoder are compressed formats, thus you can have, with the right settings, a file, that takes 1 MB per minute of audio
- close the Preferences window via CMD+W
- select the mov file in your library
- right click on it
- click "Create ... version"
- right click on the new file
- select "Show in Finder"
Boom, there is your file.
Does that suffice?