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I can understand you being cautious especially if you have been looking at hardware based language labs, we have an office on your side of the pond and the technical people there have been testing the product.

Sorry FN-GM mistook your signature for your question, I am being especially thick today, in answer to your question What do you want to do with it? I would like to sell Soundbooth Plus into as many schools as possible! We already have a number of schools who have purchased the product and are using Soundbooth Plus now, we have put forward Soundbooth Plus to a number of BSF bids via partners, one of which we have won. The feedback regarding the product has been very positive and I believe that we have a product that leverages technology to impact learning positively. We have been further developing the product since initial launch and the new features such as grouping and the virtual keyboards have been very well received, we have another feature we are working on which will be released in February. The additional plans for development we have will need to be funded so we are at the stage where we need to start marketing and selling the product. We are open to working with organisations and schools to do this so if you have any suggestions or ideas then please do get in touch.

Apologies, I had included a link to the website but when I posted it did not remain a link, I work for Codework Limited and the product is called Soundbooth Plus, its a software based language lab which can be used over a school network by students and teachers or in self study mode in study areas, school libraries or even at home. Lessons can be accessed via VLE or on flash drives/Cd's Teachers can listen into or speak directly to individuals or groups of students, we have recentl;y added drag and drop grouping with the ability for each student to record group audio. A new virtual keyboard is also available in multiple languages. An evaluation copy of the product is available via the Codework website.

Sorry no info on Netsupport although I did have a look and came to the same conclusion as yourself, over the last year I have been working with the Switchboard in a collaboration to develop a software based language lab, please have a look at Soundbooth Plus is a modern software-based language lab

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