Hello Paul, Plaudits to you for being so caring! > will record 3+ hours, but what about tape? Can a tape player be plugged > into a sound card, then run voice recognition software with the tape running? I'm pretty certain (never tried it) that you can use a conventional recorder which can then be plugged into the sound card. If you have Line-Out and Line-In connectors on each deive then so much the better, as these connectors will be electrically compatible. You could, if all else fails, connect the headphone socket of the recorder to the microphone socket of the sound card. These will not be very compatible (don't worry, they won't blow up!), in that you might not get the highest signal quality and strength, but it should be a workable solution. Once the sound is coming into the sound card, the Voice Recognition software probably doesn't care through which input it's entering, it would be a rather limited program if it demanded a specific input. HTH Neil ---------------------------------------------- Neil Carter Psychology Department IT Technician University of Wales Swansea Wales, United Kingdom http://psy.swansea.ac.uk/Staff/NeilCarter/ Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html