VoIP - phone - Linux

[hjenkins]

Audio into a laptop is difficult, as it is a very electrically noisy
environment. 'Phone-quality sound is easy to get, but if you want decent
music or voice recognition you'll need to be more picky about what you
buy. Anything you feed through the integrated soundcard will be noisy; if
you want to cut that noise, you need an external sound card, either built
into the microphone or as a separate sound adapter (which will make even a
1-pound microphone sound much better). See
http://www.voicerecognition.com/board/lofiversion/index.php?f19.html
for specific product recommendations, some of them wireless.

If you find a good way of doing VoIP without nasty user agreements, please
tell me; Jingle seems to be in the embryonic stage still, and I've not yet
gotten into it.