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  A column for session time in data
Posted by: Hyeonah - 06-07-2021, 02:49 PM - Forum: Platform Improvement - Replies (3)

Hello!
I am wondering whether there is a way that I can get how long the participants take the experiment. 
Is there a column that shows this information in the dataset?
Thank you for your help!

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  Experiment ends due to 'irregularities'
Posted by: mbreen - 06-06-2021, 12:48 PM - Forum: Platform Improvement - Replies (2)

I am currently running a long (45-60 min) study with kids ages 6-10. Eight have taken it, but 3 show up as 'Abandoned.' One of the 'abandoned' participants emailed me to say that the experiment ended due to the 'detection of irregularities.' This also happened when we were testing the experiment, and I had assumed it was due to the experiment timing out, and so I increased the allowable duration to 120 minutes. But the participant who emailed me was only 45 minutes in when the experiment abruptly ended.
What causes this early termination? Is there anything I can change in the code to keep this from happening?
Thank you!

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  How do you prevent participants to proceed without providing a text response?
Posted by: Yilmaz - 05-27-2021, 01:08 PM - Forum: Study Grammar & Management - Replies (2)

Hello Everyone,
I want to prevent participants to proceed without giving a text response. For example, in the interface, the participant sees the questions, and there is the text box below to write down the response. Then, I don't want participants to proceed to leave the text box blank without writing anything down. How can I code this? 
Thank you very much!

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  a question about blocking participants to a copied study
Posted by: cjsrka14 - 05-25-2021, 09:24 AM - Forum: Study Grammar & Management - Replies (3)

Dear FindingFive,

Hi, FindingFive!
I hope you are doing well.
I am writing because I would like to ask you a question about copied studies.
I mean... I would like to publish three studies to MTurk simultaneously, two of which are copies of the original (basically, the three studies are same).
I am wondering whether there would be any problem in doing so. I am a bit concerned about whether the participants who participated in the previous session are not blocked from any copied version. 
I always appreciate all your help and support.
Thank you very much.

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  Experimental support for speech recognition now available
Posted by: Ting - 05-21-2021, 10:57 AM - Forum: New Study Grammar Features - No Replies

Dear Researchers,

We are *very* excited to tell you about a new cool grammar feature: SPEECH RECOGNITION in audio responses. With speech recognition, FindingFive will automatically transcribe participants' audio recordings for you! For the time being, it only works with English, but we are exploring the possibility of enabling other languages as well.

Highly experimental (Must Read)
Speech recognition on FindingFive is implemented by using a closed-source and yet openly accessible speech-to-text technology provided by Google for everyone to use. Because this technology is provided to everyone for free, Google offers no guarantee whatsoever on its accuracy or reliability. As a result, FindingFive cannot offer any guarantee either. 

In addition, this feature is "rate limited", meaning that Google may suddenly deny further requests to use this feature once the number of requests from a single user reaches a certain, undisclosed threshold on a daily basis. That means:

  • While you are creating and tweaking your study, the speech recognition feature may suddenly stop working because you have reached the limit. When that happens, take a break and it'll resolve itself the next day.
  • While a participant is participating your study, the speech recognition feature may stop working in the middle of the study, because the participant has hit their daily limit. The next participant, assuming they are not using the same computer as the first one, will not be affected. This limit is applied per Chrome browser installation. As a result, as long as you are not transcribing tons of audio recording in a single study, this limit is less of an issue in production studies because of the distributed nature of online testing (each participant is only restricted by their own limit)!
In summary, our advice is that please design your study in a way so that automatically transcribed speech text is the icing on the cake, rather than the cake itself! Big Grin You will always get the audio recording, even when speech recognition stops working.

Google Chrome Only
Also because the underlying speech-to-text technology is offered by Google, only participants with a Chrome browser can use it. FindingFive has implemented a robust check mechanism to prevent participants with Firefox from ever starting a study that uses speech recognition. Such participants would be asked to switch browsers before being allowed to start the study.

How to use
We have updated our Study Grammar documentation with the details, but it's very straightforward. Just add the following bit to either the audio response or the background audio response:


Code:
"speech_to_text": true

That's it! In the downloadable CSV containing participant data, you'll get both the original audio recording (saved separately as an audio file) and a transcribed text in the CSV.

Please feel free to leave your questions in this thread! We look forward to hearing your suggestions and feedback.

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  Update to code
Posted by: czeidan - 05-17-2021, 12:03 PM - Forum: Platform Improvement - Replies (1)

Hello,
I have updated/changed some code in an experiment but when I send the link to my participants it shows the older version of the experiment.
Do I have to start a new session each time I change my code or is this an error?

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  A question about instruction during self-paced reading
Posted by: Hyeonah - 05-12-2021, 06:04 PM - Forum: Study Grammar & Management - Replies (9)

Hello!
I have another question about self-paced reading.
I wonder whether this is a way that I can fix the instruction "Press the "[SPACE]" key to advance".
On my screen, the instruction is fixed but on my collaborator's screen, this instruction jumps around while she is pressing the space to make each token appear.
I guess this issue has something to do with the size of the screen?
I'd like to know whether the instruction can be fixed so that the participants might not be bothered by this during reading. 
Thank you so much for your help!



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  A question about True/False choice test
Posted by: Hyeonah - 05-10-2021, 05:20 PM - Forum: Study Grammar & Management - Replies (5)

Hello!
I have a question about True/False choice test.
I noticed that an instruction would appear "Click the answer that you think is most likely correct:" when participants are asked to choose one between True and False.
Is there a way to change the instruction or is this instruction fixed so that I can't change it?
Thanks for your help!

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  A question about tokenized_text
Posted by: Hyeonah - 05-06-2021, 09:46 AM - Forum: Study Grammar & Management - Replies (9)

Hello!
I have a question about tokenized_text (self-paced reading).
Is there a way to divide the text, for example, the first two sentences will appear as fixed forms while the other half will appear as tokens?
For instance, if I want to use the following sentence using self-paced reading, "The Bûche de Noël cake - is French Christmas tradition",
I want to make the first two words appear on the screen (in a fixed form) and then each token will appear one by one.
Would this be possible?
Thanks!!

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  Questions about the audio file size limit and the premium membership
Posted by: cjsrka14 - 05-03-2021, 10:46 AM - Forum: Study Grammar & Management - Replies (1)

Hi, FindingFive!
I am writing because I have some questions about the audio file size limit and the premium membership.
First, I tried to upload some big audio files, but failed. It says that the file exceeds 5MB. However, as far as I remember, I uploaded some of them in the past... I am wondering this restriction is temporary, and if not, upgrading to the premium member can solve this problem.
Second, our lab is considering getting a premium membership, for which a lab account (though not be a school account) will be created. However, before doing so, I would like to check whether it is possible to transfer studies created by me and other researchers, who belong to the lab, to the lab account. I mean one of the advantages of the premium membership is that up to 3 people can be considered to be creators, and I am wondering whether it is applied for such case that the premium member is the recipient. 
(To be more specific on my situation... As I improved upon a study created by a college of mine. I am not able to publish it without her help because she is the creator, so I tried to solve this problem by copying the study. In order to do this, I have to re-upload all the stimuli. That is fine, but the problem is that the big audio files are not be able to be (re)uploaded... )
I sincerely appreciate all your help and support.
Thank you very much.

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