There was an article in The Perl Journal about creating an IP telephone in 74 lines of perl:
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1272/sam05030002/

I was considering expanding this code to include a nice GUI (either with Tk, Win32::GUI, or maybe even Wx),the problem that I am faced with now is how the heck can perl grab data from a microphone under Windows?

I'm thinking it might be neccesary to use Win32::API and do some funky dll calls, but I'm not familiar with the Windows API.

Is there a magic microphone device in windows like LPT1 and COM1?

I imagine that might not be too difficult to write a stand-alone exe that can open the mic and stream wav data, that way perl can do a nice open(MIC, "| mic.exe")

In reply to recording sound with perl under win32? by deadkarma

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