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)!
  

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?

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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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!

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 - a  - 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!!

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.

Dear Researchers,

Have you ever been deterred by the idea of creating a new study from scratch? The big empty space in trial templates and procedure seemed like a big daunting void that drains the creativity and energy out of you? Well, there's no need to be afraid anymore! The FindingFive team is delighted to announce the new study templates feature! Take a look at this beautiful screenshot:

   

Yes, that's right - you can now create a new study based on a couple of built-in templates that are already fully functional FindingFive studies. You will get the trial templates, the procedure, and even a basic set of stimuli and responses to get you started. Isn't that nice?

At the current moment, there are only three study templates: the FindingFive's official Crash Course, a mouse tracking study, and a conditional branching study. We will be adding new studies to the list over time. So stay tuned and check often!

Hello!
I have two questions about a timer and self-paced reading.
First, I coded "countdown_visible": true, to time the text.
But I notice a gray-colored number appears which indicates how many seconds left to move on to the next screen.
Is there a way to change this number into something like "You can move on to the next screen in x seconds"?
Second, I want to use self-paced reading. 
When I check how each token appears, I notice the direction saying "Press the "[SPACE]" key to advance".
Is there a way to remove this direction?
Thanks!

Researchers,
 
We are excited to announce a new way to specify the duration of a background audio response, making it possible to dynamically adapt the duration of an audio recording to the duration of multimedia stimulus content presented on the same trial as the audio response.  
 
The new feature allows researchers to specify the duration of a background audio response relative to the duration of a separate stimulus on the same trial (e.g., an audio or video stimulus). This can be particularly useful when your audio stimulus files vary in duration, and you would like to record participants adaptively - longer for longer stimuli and shorter for shorter stimuli.
 
This new property will work in conjunction with a new feature -- stimulus group -- which allows researchers to  define the group of audio stimuli to which the audio recording duration will be adjusted.  For example, when the duration of a background audio response is set as follows:

Hello!
I want to conduct a self-paced reading study.
On each screen, a paragraph of about 100 words will appear and this will be presented using tokenized_text stimuli.
But then when I do a preview, a sentence is presented to the end of the right side so that I have to move the scrollbar to the right. I think this can confuse or bother the participants while they participate in this experiment.
Is there any way I can make each token appear in the fixed domain?
Below is the one stimuli that I used:
{
  "type": "tokenized_text",
  "content": "Time moved on - and he already felt - he was - couple's -son. - He could not be happier. - His new -parents - did not treat him - like a -prisoner - or a - servant, - but loved him. - Now he had a younger brother. - He had no -choice - but to love this -baby. - He also had - plenty of - food - to eat. - His life as a -worker - was really over. - He did not miss - the angry -master - and he did not miss - his old -place - either. - He had even forgotten - he ever lived there. - There was only one thing - he missed from his old life. - He missed his friends. - He thought about them -every day. - Maybe one day - he would go back - and visit them.",
  "alignment": "left",
  "mode": "masked",
  "mask_char": "_",
  "self_paced": true
}

Thanks!