Sound recorder - dictation equipment

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 11:44 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 13:24 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 12:16 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 12:35 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > > > ALL I need to
> > > > do is to be able to create an mp3 file and send it off via e-mail.
> > > 
> > > Audacity and a microphone are all you need.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > 
> > Frank,
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply.  Would you recommend a low impedance or high
> > impedance mic?  I eventually want to do some experimenting with speech
> > recognition.  
> ----
> probably high impedance but that would of course depend upon your sound
> card capabilities.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
Craig,

Thanks for your help!!!

I am going to be doing the testing on a 3 year old hp laptop;  looks
like the sound card is Intel ICH6 with Cx20468-31.  I would not expect
it to have great quality, but at this point I do not need great quality.

Greg