Mute mic during text to speech?

[Scoobydoobie]

Hello, is there a way to mute the microphone while text to speech is speaking?

Basically I'm using a program that provides voice responses to commands. 

The problem is that when it speaks, it also hears it's speech and tries to execute commands.

I put together something very simple that will mute/unmute the microphone, but it's time based which means I'll have to create quite a few different timers.

Is there a way to monitor tts or sapi to get that time?

This is what I have now.

Send("{CTRLDOWN}{LWIN}{CTRLUP}")

Sleep(10000)

Send("{CTRLDOWN}{LWIN}{CTRLUP}")

 

I tried searching but I don't think I'm asking the question right. lol

I'm a hardware guy so this is a little out of my zone.

Thanks