I don't know what Starmax is (is it a clone?) or why Motorola would have a
fix, but I've had the same problem.  I used speech recognition before I had
8.0, but then the microphone bugged out and I gave up trying to use it.  And
I have a Mac Performa 6400.  I think that when os8 is installed, the driver
for the plaintalk microphone was changed, or the way the sound in port is
used was just changed, and the speech recognition software just isn't
compatible anymore.  I don't know if there's a newer version.

Jeff

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>From: "Ryan C. Christiansen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Newsgroups: mu.comp.os.macintosh
>Subject: sound fix
>Date: Thu, Apr 29, 1999, 4:32 AM
>

> I recently found a web site (starmax.net) with information dated 7/22/97
> stating that the Motorola Computer Group technical support unit once offered
> a Starmax sound fix for the following symptom...
>
> The microphone functioning intermittently.
>
> I recently installed the speech recognition software on to my Starmax
> (recently upgraded to Mac OS 8) and use an Apple PlainTalk pre-amped
> microphone (I have trouble-shot the mic using a mini tape recorder and it
> works fine) but I have not been able to get the computer to "listen" to me (my
> girlfriend thinks I'm crazy talking to my computer, especially since it
doesn't
> do anything when I talk to it.)  Prior to this time, I have never had any sort
of
> microphone plugged into the mic port on this CPU.
>
> Apparently, a small quantity of Starmax systems were shipped without a
> sound fix extension included on a floppy diskette or in the accessory kit.
> The web site said customers who discover they have one of the systems
> shipped without the sound fix can obtain it at no cost from Motorola
> Computer Group.  But when I called the 800 number, the voice recording
> specifically referred all Starmax customers away from the Motorola help
> desk, telling them to instead call a regional authorized hardware service
> provider.
>
> Does anyone out there have this "sound fix" extension?  If so, could you e-
> mail it to me at my other e-mail address at...
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Otherwise, any advice you may have please respond to this e-mail through
> the listserv.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Ryan Christiansen
> Apple disciple since 1981
> Have you hugged your Macintosh today?