listening vs recording

listening

noun
  • An educational exercise involving listening 

  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

adj
  • Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. 

  • Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 

  • Of something or someone that listens. 

recording

noun
  • The act of storing sound, video, etc., in a permanent medium. 

  • A reproduction of sound, video, etc., stored in a permanent medium. 

  • The act of registering for something; registration. 

How often have the words listening and recording occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )