David- the most common reason for this behavior is that the microphone is 'too close' to your mouth. Try backing it out a bit and see if that doesn't help.ed. From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Lepofsky Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:19 AM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] Re: Some commands which do not function i am finding that check microphone is flakey. sometimes it works. some times it does. it was working more reliably when i was using Jaws 8 and JSay 5, and found this degraded now that i am using Jaws 9 and JSay 6.