Dan Wood wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Recently I was amazed to find an significant improvement in accuracy when I placed the mike about 2 cm above my lips rather that in line with them as demonstrated in the set up instructions. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There is no one correct position for every person and every microphone. Voices are different, some people talk out of the sides of their mouths and microphone pickup patterns are different. What microphone are you using? Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc. The best microphones for Speech Recognition See us at: http://www.eMicrophones.com/index.asp See, "Key Steps to High Speech Recognition Accuracy for the Mac" at: http://www.emicrophones.com/docDetails.asp?DocumentID=39