... You could invest in a recording booth, high-end studio microphone, and some high-quality shielded cables. Or, you could use Windows Vista's new Microphone Array technology. The former can cost many thousands of dollars. The latter comes free with Windows Vista and when coupled with a PC equipped with a microphone array, the results can be dramatic.
So what exactly is a microphone array?
Simply stated, a microphone array is two or more microphones used at the same time to capture sound. Windows Vista supports microphone arrays that consist of two or four microphones. The advantage of using more than one microphone to capture sound is that it allows the software that is processing the microphone signals to determine the position of the sound in the room.
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