Thanks for the reply. Dragon now comes with a microphone and they claim Version 7.0 will work accurately after 5 minutes of training. I mentioned the Blackberry because he wants to be able to email the transcribed document from anywhere, and I assume he won't always have a wireless network available. (War driving wouldn't appeal to him). So, the second part of this question is; What device (Such as a Blackberry) would sync with his laptop and allow him to email from any location? **************************************************************************** ************************** I actually did a little research on this subject back in the late 90's for a college class. The gist of the research is this: The fastest processor affordable. As much memory as possible. Since a laptop has integrated sound, you can't change it easily, but better quality sound cards produced higher accuracy. Most important factor.....A QUALITY mic. In this case, a unidirectional, noise cancelling unit would be best. I'm guessing there will be a fair amount of background noise. This single factor may make or break the deal. I'm not sure where the Blackberry device comes in. Most of the V/R mfgs have their own hand recorders where you talk now, transcribe later. These units worked but I got better results with a quality mic. Not as convenient though.uld The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml