The iTouch does not have a built-in microphone, so you would need to factor in the cost of additional hardware, too. The iTouch is a great device, so much so that I can see myself lugging my laptop around on trips less often, but many of the apps that have been created to take advantage of audio input are designed for the iPhone because it has that feature built-in. Cheers, Anthony Anthony Helm, Director Arts and Humanities Resource Center Dartmouth College 6192 Bartlett Hall Hanover, NH 03755-3530 [log in to unmask] Phone: +1-603-646-8180 Fax: +1-603-646-2712 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************