HI Pranav, You are so helpful, pal, if you were here, you'd get a dinner, on me! Thanks a bunch, I'll try all of that. Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: Pranav Lal To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 3:21 PM Subject: [j-say list] Re: this is getting weirder by the minute! Hi Harry, The thing is that you can use speakers when you use J-Say. The synthesizer will not interfear with Dragon. In terms of steps, I do not have windows XP but here goes. 1. Plugin the head set and launch dragon. 2. Go to the windows control pannel and set your default audio device to be your internal sound card. Exit the sounds applet and then the windows control pannel. 3. say "jaws menu" to activate the jaws menu and go to the sound cards option in the utilities submenu. Set jaws to work with the internal sound card. You are now good to go. You will hear your synthesizer through your speakers and will be able to dictate through the microphone. You need not unplug the headset at all. Leave your infrastructure the way it is. Pranav 4. -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Brown Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:24 PM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] Re: this is getting weirder by the minute! Hi Pranav, Ok, so, then, what do I do when I'm done using j-say and I want to go back to my speakers on my desk? Walk me through step by step, ok? I just wanted to use it for email and word processing, at the moment. Later on, if I need to, if my hands don't work any more because of a stroke, then, I'll use j-say full time. Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: Pranav Lal <mailto:pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxx> To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 1:42 PM Subject: [j-say list] Re: this is getting weirder by the minute! Harry, Do not unplug the headset with dragon launched. I suspect dragon is expecting the headset to be present and the sudden change in the sound source confuses things. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Brown Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 9:12 PM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] this is getting weirder by the minute! Hi all, well, this is the latest. When I plug in the USB headset, without Dragon launched, and I unplug the USB headset, the speech is just fine on my speakers. However, if I launched Dragon to use j-say, and I unplug the USB headset, I get no speech. So, what do you all think about that one? Harry