Thank's for that ax, I'll look into some of what you've said. I should have stated that I don't need to go full "hands free" as I have some use of my left hand for a mouse and some ability to type using both hands.

With the variety of software and tasks my job requires it wouldn't be feasible to go hands free. I just need speech recognition to take care of email, instant messaging and writing reports. Anything that reduced mouse usage would be a nice to have but not necessary.

I should also say the level of noise in the office is pretty variable depending on time of day, who is working, etc... but I fully expect the place to go worst case scenario every time I want to dictate an email because that's just my luck!

There are probably very few people in the world who could advise me on flexymike v speechone noise rejection but I bet there's a few people hanging around here that can.