How to get real-time speech input

[antonela]

I am doing my final thesis in which I have to manipulate a robot vehicle with spoken commands (such as "move" ,"start", "stop" etc).

I was hoping to get some info about how to get speech input commands real-time in .wav format since I have just few days until the deadline and I am desperate

My problem:

The speech recognition program I have with which the robot interacts requires a wav file already saved in the same directory with the recognition program. Then this .wav file is used as an input to the program. The whole project of recognition and robot movement runs under C++ (Visual C++ 6.0). So, what I need in order to finish is a way to capture real-time my voice and save it with a specific name in the same directory. BUT, i need to do this by calling something from the C++ program... This something could be some functions or another program which could do the job. I need the recording to be done in 16 KHz sample frequency and 16 bit/sample.

I would be grateful if anyone could help me...