ISight echo on iMacG5

I got an iSight for my grandmother who is in FL, so she can chat with my family (on my G4 using a video camera) and my mother (on a PC using AIM). It works ok, but on either the G4 or PC, we hear a significant echo of my grandmothers voice, to the point where it is difficult to hear what she is saying. It almost sounds like we are hearing audio from the iSight and an internal microphone. Heck, I don't even know if the iMac G5 has a microphone and if so, shouldn't it turn off when the iSight is on?
She has cable internet and the speed is fine.
I've read posts about moving the iSight from the speakers, but she just uses internal speakers, so no go there.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks

 iChat AV can use only one mic at a time, so Granny cannot be using both. You can choose which in the iChat > Preferences... > Video > Microphone: Choices Bar. The best choice is normally "iSight Built-in" because iSight's internal mic system is designed to reduce this kind of echoing and other audio distractions. The internal iSight mic almost always give better results than iMac's built in mic does.
iChat purposely plays sound at lower levels than other apps do in order to reduce audio feedback into the microphone. Try turning down the volume on your speakers as a test. Does this help? You can verify with certainty whether this is the problem by trying headphones instead of speakers for one of your chats.
You are also correct that the echo might be from her speakers. Granny may need to turn down her volume. If she is hard of hearing, she may need to use headphones at her end to be able to hear you without sending too much audio to her iSight's mic.
I am not clear as to which Mac Granny uses, but you should check to be sure that she has not positioned her iSight close to or directly in front of her speakers. Either location would increase feedback.
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