How to get hardware information of (in-build) microphone?

Is it possible to read the hardware information (at least the name) of the (in-build) microphone while a user is recording an audio file on my website?

Is that possible with JavaScript or is there another way to solve this problem? I searched the web but could only find scripts for recording with JavaScript.

Solution

Newer version: Available in Firefox, MS Edge, and Chrome 45 with experimental flag.

Using the standard navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices(), you can get a list of available sources. Each source has a kind property, as well as a label.

var stream;
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio:true })
.then(s => (stream = s), e => console.log(e.message))
.then(() => navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices())
.then(devices => {
  stream && stream.stop();
  console.log(devices.length + " devices.");
  devices.forEach(d => console.log(d.kind + ": " + d.label));
})
.catch(e => console.log(e));

var console = { log: msg => div.innerHTML += msg + "<br>" };

<div id="div"></div>

Documentation & Related

navigator.mediaDevices on MDN - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices
The "Media Capture and Streams" specification - http://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-main/getusermedia.html#mediadevices
Demo of selecting input source by Sam Dutton - https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/devices/input-output/

The last demo works in regular Chrome thanks to the adapter.js polyfill.