Grateful Guest, your relatives wouldn't need Audacity loaded on their computers to hear the files you record. Any software capable of playing back wav or mp3 files woyld be sufficient. Windows Media Player (free with Windows, but there are better alternatives also) will do the job. There are also free programs out there which would allow you to 'link' a sound file to a picture so the recorded sound bite would automatically play when the picture is viewed. Lots of possibilities, and they don't take too much computer savvy either.