diff --git a/mic_hat_examples/recording_examples/record_one_channel.py b/mic_hat_examples/recording_examples/record_one_channel.py
index aef5c2d..e25228f 100644
--- a/mic_hat_examples/recording_examples/record_one_channel.py
+++ b/mic_hat_examples/recording_examples/record_one_channel.py
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ stream = p.open(
 
 print("* recording")
 
-frames = [] 
+frames = []
 
 for i in range(0, int(RESPEAKER_RATE / CHUNK * RECORD_SECONDS)):
     data = stream.read(CHUNK)
     # extract channel 0 data from 2 channels, if you want to extract channel 1, please change to [1::2]
-    a = np.fromstring(data,dtype=np.int16)[0::2]
-    frames.append(a.tostring())
+    a = np.frombuffer(data, dtype=np.int16)[0::2]
+    frames.append(a.tobytes())
 
 print("* done recording")