Get input sound level from mic

I'm trying to find out how ( if possible ) to get the input sound level from the microphone.
Example : if someone screams into the mic it would return that it is loud or on a scale of 1 to 10 it would be a 10; and the opposite if someone was whispering.
Any help would be great!
-Rob

Digital audio is stored as a series of samples, where each sample is the amplitude of the sound wave being recorded. The volume of the sound is the same as the amplitude of the sound, therefore, each individual sample is simply encoded as the volume of the sound.
So you break the mic input down into a list of samples (based on the sample size / number of channels) and keep a running average to determine the sound level.

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