Hi Arne, If you are a heavy user of speech recognition, you need to buy a specialized microphone for speech recognition. Most internal sound cards have poor shielding from internal computer noise so you do need a USB sound card and a good noise canceling microphone. The microphone that comes with DNS is really really cheep and not really usable. From my reading, the 4 best microphones for DNS are as follows. 1. Sennheiser ME3 headset (modified for speech recognition) 2. Sennheiser MD431II 3. theBoom earhook 4. Samson Airline 77 There are several vendors out there who sell these microphones. One such vendor is www.emicrophones.com. If you are in the UK, then you can also go to itspeaking.co.uk. Finally, T&T and Next Generation Technologies I believe do also sell microphones. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arne Gilbakken Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:12 AM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] sound card and headphones Hello, I am new to the list. I am considdering buying the J-say. I have a IBM T60 with 2Gb of ram. Is the internal sound card good enough for the audio input? Or do I need to by some USB external sound card, if yes what kind is recomanded with the headphones? Is the current version of J-say updated to run with Jaws 9.0 or do I have to run Jaws 8 with its latest update? Best regards Arne Gilbakken No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.9/1157 - Release Date: 28.11.2007 12:29