How do you turn on the microphone?

Question

How would I go about turning the microphone on and open some kind of a live stream to listen to whats happening on my PC in another location? It's going to be a baby-monitor project.

Any ideas on the way I should do this? I am only really after code to do the task. I can do the rest. I am learning Delphi so I should be okay.

I would also need to be able to stop the mic. At this stage I do not want to talk back, just listen in real time or as close as I can get.

Answer 1

Wow, everyone keeps on recommending external packages for this. It's built into Windows - the waveInOpen/waveInPrepareHeader/waveInBufferRead APIs should work on all versions of Windows.

You can also use DirectSoundCapture if you need finer control.