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Hi all,

Currently I am designing an experiment in which participants are stimulated to associate freely upon a prime word. I can make them type in the associated word (openended), but I would like to record their spoken words in stead.
I programmed this with the option "/inputdevice = voicerecord" (I want to save the files and analyse later). But the problem is that (maybe due to the fact that 'anyresponse' is valid and correct), inquisit tapes/ saves only the first few milliseconds of the response. So, a stuttered or long word is not recorded completely, but only the first syllable. Sometimes it does not record anything. Can i set/ adjust the record time?

Thanks!
hilde

Hilde,

Here are a couple of things to try:

1) Setthe voicekeythreshold to values less than the default of 5.
2) Turn up the input levels on the microphone.

Let me know if that helps.

-Sean

Thank you Sean,
I'm sorry but I cannot find the place where I can change the voicekeythreshold...?
thanks again!
Hilde

It is an attribute of the <defaults> element, for example:

<defaults>
/ voicekeythreshold = 2
</defaults>

Thanks again!

Unfortunately it is not working....
It either starts recording too late or it is too sensitive and starts recording before I said anything. And in any case it is not recording long enough.Whatever IS recorded is recorded properly (sound is good).

But I suppose it is not possible to programme it so that it records for 3 seconds on every trial for example?

Kind regards
hilde

Hilde,

In the next update, I've tinkered with the way in which Inquisit determines whether the user is still speaking. You can download a beta of the next version here:

http://www.millisecond.com/download/win/Inquisit_3030.exe

Hopefully this will fix your problem, but if not, let me know what is going wrong and I'll make some more adjustments before issuing the final release of this update. There isn't time to add commands for adjusting the length of recording to this release, but hopefully this new speech detection method will work for you so that you don't need any new commands.

-Sean