Covid-19, apart from all health consequences, is also having an impact on research projects with human participants. Universities and schools are shutting down and, even when labs are still open, participants pull out of studies from (understandable) fear to be infected...
I was contemplating adjusting some of my and my students' experiments with children to an online format. Of course, there is no solution for eye-tracking or complex experiments; but simple behavioural ones could perhaps be implemented online so that children -with their parents' help- could participate from home.
Trying to find the best solution to online experiment implementation, I have had a close look at the PsyToolkit ( https://www.psytoolkit.org/ ), OpenSesame's OSWeb extension which can publish online experiments through JATOS ( https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/manual/osweb/ ) and PsychoPy's Pavlovia (https://www.psychopy.org/#online).
However, none of these solutions/platforms seems to permit the recording of my participants' verbal responses to a task :(
Does anyone have any idea about that? Is there any platform that would permit the recording of voice and store it in a (safe) Cloud space? Alternatively, could I 'call' from the experimental application an external voice recorder that could do this task?
Any suggestions are more than welcome
Thanks in advance
Alexandra
EDIT #1: It appears that the Gorilla platform has a new 'Audio Recording Zone' that can be added to an online experiment and record voice responses!
More info here: https://gorilla.sc/support/reference/task-builder-zones#audiorecording
Still, if someone knows of any open-source solution to that I would definitively prefer it
Hello Alexandra,
I'm in a very similar situation. I've found a couple of tools that seem to be doing what we are after?
Labvanced:
https://www.labvanced.com/features.html
(explained in this video: https://youtu.be/7DQVixAsAPg )
Gorilla:
https://gorilla.sc/support/reference/task-builder-zones#audiorecording
To my knowledge, PsychoPy or Opensesame are not able to get access to the participant's mics (https://www.psychopy.org/online/status.html)
They use Pavlovian, but as I say, they haven't reached that point. (Opensesame's website seems to be offline since -at least- yesterday night). Although OpenSesame works in general fine (I have used it in the past for on site testing), I never managed to make it work online.
Psytoolkit, to my knowledge (I've used it for surveys and reading-based tasks), would not work.
So, as far as I know, I would try either Labvanced or Gorilla.
If anyone knows anything better, replies would be highly appreciated.
Best wishes,
Javier
Dear Javier Aguado-Orea ,
Thank you so much for the info. These days I have been trying the Gorilla platform which seems promising. I will also have a look at Labvanced which I didn't know.
Thanks a lot and good luck to all of us!
Stay safe!
EDIT #2:
I came across another platform: www.findingfive.com. The platform seems to allow the recording of audio responses from participants [ https://news.findingfive.com/2019/04/15/tutorial-recording-participant-responses/#audio]. Studies can be deployed on Amazon Mechanical Turk or on the FindingFive platform itself.
Has anyone used it?
I use FF for my online studies and I think it works well. I have not used the recording feature, though. It is easy to program, and run.
I know that MTurk offers this option, even though not for free. I just read a paper (Buz et al. 2016) on the influence of feedback on speech production where MTurk was employed.
Dear Sara Rose Finley and Giorgio Piazza ,
Thank you very much for your suggestions! I will have a close look at MTurk.
Dear Sara, what does FF stands for? (sorry, no idea!)
Best wishes
JotForm [https://www.jotform.com] is something that I have had students use in my classes over the last few years. It is a bit clunky, but still extremely useful to collect recordings with minimum effort. This is free.
I report an additional platform I just discovered:
PennController for IBEX
https://www.pcibex.net/documentation/
It seems pretty easy and allows audio recordings
Karthik Durvasula, Giorgio Piazza
Thank you so much! Options are increasing!!!
So interesting.
Best wishes
Just an update - the Experigen platform (Becker & Levine 2020) now includes the option to record audio - can personally vouch for its ease of use! Link to github: https://github.com/tlozoot/experigen
Hi Alexandra,
Gorilla is also able to audio record responses. Have a look:
https://gorilla.sc/support/reference/task-builder-zones#audiorecordingbeta
Alina
sorry as this may sound too obvious, but (as you asked "Alternatively, could I 'call' from the experimental application an external voice recorder that could do this task?") can't you just record with Zoom? 🤷♂️
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