Long story short my mother needed t0 playback a microphone through the speakers. Should be simple and on Windows Xp it is. But for some strange reason vista does not have the option, some drivers do but not the default Microsoft audio driver. Of course doing this should be simple so I spent at least a good hour finding a solution, it would appear that none exist. I tried googling everything “Force mic loop”, “Force mic feedback”, “vista mic live playback”, “play mic through speakers vista”, “program to playback mic” and yes I did just put that list there in the hopes that Google will get a clue.
Turns out there is no program that does it. So I’ve created my own. It is done in flash and has some minor latency due to the use of flash, but any solution will have a bit of latency and hopefully for your needs it will be good enough.
To run it you have to give it permission to use the mic, it will automatically show you the permission dialog and will start working as soon as you close the dialog.
You can download the file and run it locally should you need to. To do so right click on the following link and select “Save file as”
Download: Warll’s Microphone playback’r
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