Speech recognition will put additional demands on the computer. If you have a model older than a Power Mac I think you will want to upgrade whether you use anything here or not. Connect up a pair of earphones or amplified external speakers. That little speaker inside the case is nearly worthless. Somewhere along the OS line the computer went stereo.
Sounds come from the left.
This makes it easier to locate actions on the screen. Some boom boxes have input jacks and decent speakers. I have a Goodwill store model. As I mentioned in an earlier message, we could also put it together as a Web page and connect it to the MDList site. Let me know what you'd like to do.