Wake up screen when audio plays?

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In short, I want to make a program that runs in the background, and whenever my computer plays audio above a certain volume the screen wakes up. I don't even really know where to start with this as I've never worked with audio before, and I haven't been able to find any pre-existing code that analyzes audio in real time with Auto-IT. Could anyone point me to some useful resources to help me start off?