Hi, I am working on a VOIP implementation were one of the key design goals is zero user configuration. Similar to Skype. What I've come to notice is that my soundcard (NForce4 based) leaks audio from the playback path to the recording path. This is probably not unique for my hardware at all and will happen on some percentage of all users of my software. (All of this is Win32) What happens is that when no one is talking I think Speex pre-processor starts to think that the very quiet leak from my playback path is actually someone talking. I am using AGC and VAD and my guess would be that AGC amplifies the leak to such a level that VAD starts triggering. This is rather annoying for the user if the software is used while playing MP3s (loud) or playing computer games. Would it be possible to implement some sort of a threshold to limit what Speex classifies as "usable sound" or something? I would also like to thank the entire Speex effort for this great piece of software and especially Jean-Marc Valin //Regards Jonas T?rnstr?m, Sweden.