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Dec 4 / Peter deHaan

Detecting the microphone in Flash using ActionScript 3.0

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The following example shows how you can request access to the user’s microphone using the static Microphone.getMicrophone() method and listening for the status event.

Full code after the jump.

// ActionScript 3.0
var mic:Microphone = Microphone.getMicrophone();
mic.setLoopBack();
mic.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, mic_status);
 
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
tf.text = "Detecting microphone...";
addChild(tf);
 
function mic_status(evt:StatusEvent):void {
    tf.text = "Microphone is muted?: " + mic.muted;
    switch (evt.code) {
        case "Microphone.Unmuted":
            tf.appendText("\n" + "Microphone access was allowed.");
            break;
        case "Microphone.Muted":
            tf.appendText("\n" + "Microphone access was denied.");
            break;
    }
}
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6 Comments

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  1. Tamer / Jan 13 2009

    Hi,
    We were looking for a way to capture the mic audio data and save it to mp3
    Will this really need a flash communication server!??!

    Please advise
    Thanks
    Tamer

  2. Echo / Feb 24 2009

    hi,
    thanks for useful example you placed here. i am too excited in capturing sound and saving it to whatever format for now. any Idea ?

    Thanks Again
    Echo

  3. Jim / Mar 22 2009

    I want to know microphone recording too.
    Must we need FMS?
    Why cant it be saved to somewhere upon finishing recording?

  4. houdini / Jun 4 2009

    Hi there!

    Isn’t it possible to store recorded data in byte array?

    Greetings houdini

  5. sara / Jun 30 2009

    thank you this example help me in my work thanks_Egypt

  6. Anthony / Sep 25 2009

    Hi all,
    If your interested in saving the input to the file, your will need to store it in a byte array and then output the byte array data to a file of your choose with the right encoding of the file.

    Check out: http://theflashblog.com/?p=1426

    Thanks,
    Ant.

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