From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Fri Aug 13 13:13:50 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:13:50 +0100 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. Best Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Tel: 0116 223 1709 From dhair at wfubmc.edu Fri Aug 13 13:24:53 2004 From: dhair at wfubmc.edu (David Hairston) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:24:53 -0400 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: I am running it on multiple XP Pro machines, w/ all the updates. No obvious problems. On very random occasions, I'll get a runtime error and the whole E-Studio will be forced to termination by Windows. No idea why, but it's not driver-related. W. David Hairston Neurobiology and Anatomy Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC 27157 (336) 716-4481 (lab) -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Andrews, A.S. Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:14 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. Best Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Tel: 0116 223 1709 From brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com Fri Aug 13 13:35:35 2004 From: brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com (Brandon Cernicky) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:35:35 -0700 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: At this time Psychology Software Tools is not aware of any incompatabilities with E-Prime 1.x and Windows XP SP2. Informal reports by end users have been requested about these compatability issues. Psychology Software Tools is investingating these reports and conducting their own set of test batteries. Any information about the compatability will be posted on the Psychology Software Tools website and this discussion group. To address your specific concern about the hardware key compatability. I have recently installed Windows XP SP2 on a few machines and have had no issues with the hardware key or driver. I am using the latest version of the driver which as of this writing is version 4.95. To ensure you have the latest version of the hardware key driver, make sure you have Windows Update set to "auto update" configuration and it will automatically find the HASP hardware key that PST uses for E-Prime and install the latest driver. For non-Windows XP users or to manually install the latest driver for the hardware key, download is available at http://www.pstnet.com/downloads/misc/HDD32.exe -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools ====================================== > >Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? > >I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. > >Best Regards > >Tony Andrews >Senior Computer Officer >School of Psychology >University of Leicester >University Road >Leicester LE1 7RH >Tel: 0116 223 1709 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Fri Aug 13 13:39:29 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:39:29 +0100 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: Many thanks Brandon. I should have stressed that the reports I have heard were not in relation to use with E-Prime specifically. Best Regards Tony Andrews ________________________________ From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Brandon Cernicky Sent: Fri 13/08/2004 14:35 To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: RE: Windows XP, SP2 At this time Psychology Software Tools is not aware of any incompatabilities with E-Prime 1.x and Windows XP SP2. Informal reports by end users have been requested about these compatability issues. Psychology Software Tools is investingating these reports and conducting their own set of test batteries. Any information about the compatability will be posted on the Psychology Software Tools website and this discussion group. To address your specific concern about the hardware key compatability. I have recently installed Windows XP SP2 on a few machines and have had no issues with the hardware key or driver. I am using the latest version of the driver which as of this writing is version 4.95. To ensure you have the latest version of the hardware key driver, make sure you have Windows Update set to "auto update" configuration and it will automatically find the HASP hardware key that PST uses for E-Prime and install the latest driver. For non-Windows XP users or to manually install the latest driver for the hardware key, download is available at http://www.pstnet.com/downloads/misc/HDD32.exe -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools ====================================== > >Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? > >I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. > >Best Regards > >Tony Andrews >Senior Computer Officer >School of Psychology >University of Leicester >University Road >Leicester LE1 7RH >Tel: 0116 223 1709 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From e.whiting at uq.edu.au Wed Aug 18 06:33:45 2004 From: e.whiting at uq.edu.au (Ms Emma WHITING) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:33:45 +1000 Subject: eprime question Message-ID: I was wondering if eprime is capable of accepting letter strings (such as whole words that may be real words or nonwords) as responses from subjects, or can it only accept a single letter/number response? Thanks, Emma Whiting From klatsky at oswego.edu Wed Aug 18 13:57:23 2004 From: klatsky at oswego.edu (Gary Klatsky) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:57:23 -0400 Subject: eprime question In-Reply-To: <11244e112cdb.112cdb11244e@uq.edu.au> Message-ID: The only way I have been able to input text strings is by using the Askbox function in a script Gary J. Klatsky, Ph. D. Director, Human Computer Interaction M.A. Program Department of Psychology klatsky at oswego.edu Oswego State University (SUNY) http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky 7060 State Hwy 104W Voice: (315) 312-3474 Oswego, NY 13126 Fax: (315) 312-6330 -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org]On Behalf Of Ms Emma WHITING Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:34 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: eprime question I was wondering if eprime is capable of accepting letter strings (such as whole words that may be real words or nonwords) as responses from subjects, or can it only accept a single letter/number response? Thanks, Emma Whiting From odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de Wed Aug 18 14:10:12 2004 From: odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de (Georg Odenthal) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:10:12 +0200 Subject: eprime question Message-ID: Hello Emma, To get ePrime to collect String input click on the "advanced" button in the Duration/ Input tab (after adding the keyboard as input device and putting {ANY} in the allowable field). In the Keyboard Advanced Properties set the maximum number of characters allowed as input. [But be careful, backspace is also counted as character. That is, if somebody types 5 characters and deletes them again 10 characters are counted - that seems to be a bug in ePrime ... or maybe a feature? ;-) So always enter a lot larger number for allowed characters than what you really want to allow your subjects to enter] You can also specify a termination response, e.g. {ENTER} for the return key. On the Collection tab you should set the "response mode" to alphanumeric if you don't want your subjects typing in punctuation marks. You should leave "process backspace" to yes if you want your subjects to be able to delete their input again. But you will have to deal with the backspace problem described above if backspace is being processed. Finally on the "echo" tab you have to add a screen display in order to display the typed text string on the screen. Without a screen display your subjects won't see what they type. You can use the size of the screen display to limit the visible text field. If you want your subjects to enter a maximum of 30 characters and want them to be able to delete as many characters as possible you should enter e.g. 999 as "max count" on the General tab and then limit the screen display so that only 30 of these will be presented on the screen. Then your subjects can type and delete 999 characters, but will only see about 30 (this amount can vary depending on the characters being typed since ePrime uses proportional spaced font) on the screen and assume that this is the maximum they are allowed to type. Best regards, Georg Odenthal ========================================================================= Georg Odenthal (Dipl.-Psych.) University of Konstanz +49 (0)7531 88-2872 Department of Psychology odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de Social Psychology and Motivation http://www.socpsych.uni-konstanz.de 78457 Konstanz, Germany ========================================================================= From paulj at psy.uq.edu.au Wed Aug 18 21:55:48 2004 From: paulj at psy.uq.edu.au (Paul R. Jackson) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:55:48 +1000 Subject: eprime question In-Reply-To: <11244e112cdb.112cdb11244e@uq.edu.au> Message-ID: Easy, see example at: www.psy.uq.edu.au/~paulj/resp-string.es Basically on the response options section of the object that you want to collect the string from click the 'advanced' button. Then 'MaxCount' is max characters in the string and 'Termination Response' is the character that stops data collection (i.e. '{ENTER}'). NB: you can echo it to the screen if you like by also going to the 'Echo' tab and clicking 'Add', then 'Edit' the Echo object to change colors and placement. Give me a yell if you have any problems. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul R. Jackson Experimental Programmer School of Psychology University of Queensland E:paulj at psy.uq.edu.au P:3365-6713 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Ms Emma WHITING > Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2004 4:34 PM > To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: eprime question > > I was wondering if eprime is capable of accepting letter > strings (such as whole words that may be real words or > nonwords) as responses from subjects, or can it only accept a > single letter/number response? > > Thanks, > Emma Whiting > > > > From kevinpeters at trentu.ca Thu Aug 26 18:13:18 2004 From: kevinpeters at trentu.ca (Kevin Peters) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:13:18 -0400 Subject: Eprime question Message-ID: Hi, I am new to Eprime and am trying to create a Digit Span task similar to the WAIS-R. I would like the numbers to appear on the screen, one at a time (duration = 1 sec and ISI = 1sec). I need some advice on how to best do this. More specifically, how do I terminate the program early if someone fails two consecutive trials before the end of the experiment (e.g., at the 6 digits level) without losing data? Thanks, Kevin Kevin Peters, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Trent University 1600 West Bank Drive Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8 Phone: (705) 748-1011 x5395 Fax: (705) 748-1580 From kirschen at stanford.edu Fri Aug 27 21:05:23 2004 From: kirschen at stanford.edu (Matthew Kirschen) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:05:23 -0700 Subject: creating .wav files Message-ID: I was wondering if anyone knew of a good program (shareware or commercial, any platform) for creating auditory wav files from written text. I'm programming an experiment looking at the difference between auditory and visual working memory. I currently have a list of 5000 words for the visual condition, but I'm having difficulty creating auditory versions of the words. I'm searching for a program which will input a list of words, digitize them in a spoken voice and create and save a .wav file (which I can then read into E-prime). I'm trying to avoid the daunting task of speaking 5000 words into a microphone. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. thankx mk ********************************************************** Matthew Kirschen, SMS V Stanford University School of Medicine Lucas MRS Imaging Center, MC: 5488 1201 Welch Road Stanford, CA 94305-5488 kirschen at stanford.edu (650) 724-8029 From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Tue Aug 31 19:27:00 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:27:00 +0100 Subject: creating .wav files In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040827135807.02047828@kirschen.pobox.stanford.edu> Message-ID: Matthew There are a number of laborious options, but probably the best, if you can handle a little Java is to use http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php It's a library to do text-to-speech in Java. You could write a quick program that would go through your files and spit out sounds. The low quality included voices sound like 50s robots, but there are instructions for getting higher quality voices. Best Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Tel: 0116 223 1709 From: Matthew Kirschen Sent: Fri 27/08/2004 22:05 To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: creating .wav files I was wondering if anyone knew of a good program (shareware or commercial, any platform) for creating auditory wav files from written text. I'm programming an experiment looking at the difference between auditory and visual working memory. I currently have a list of 5000 words for the visual condition, but I'm having difficulty creating auditory versions of the words. I'm searching for a program which will input a list of words, digitize them in a spoken voice and create and save a .wav file (which I can then read into E-prime). I'm trying to avoid the daunting task of speaking 5000 words into a microphone. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. thankx mk ********************************************************** Matthew Kirschen, SMS V Stanford University School of Medicine Lucas MRS Imaging Center, MC: 5488 1201 Welch Road Stanford, CA 94305-5488 kirschen at stanford.edu (650) 724-8029 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Fri Aug 13 13:13:50 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:13:50 +0100 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. Best Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Tel: 0116 223 1709 From dhair at wfubmc.edu Fri Aug 13 13:24:53 2004 From: dhair at wfubmc.edu (David Hairston) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:24:53 -0400 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: I am running it on multiple XP Pro machines, w/ all the updates. No obvious problems. On very random occasions, I'll get a runtime error and the whole E-Studio will be forced to termination by Windows. No idea why, but it's not driver-related. W. David Hairston Neurobiology and Anatomy Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC 27157 (336) 716-4481 (lab) -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Andrews, A.S. Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 9:14 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. Best Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Tel: 0116 223 1709 From brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com Fri Aug 13 13:35:35 2004 From: brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com (Brandon Cernicky) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:35:35 -0700 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: At this time Psychology Software Tools is not aware of any incompatabilities with E-Prime 1.x and Windows XP SP2. Informal reports by end users have been requested about these compatability issues. Psychology Software Tools is investingating these reports and conducting their own set of test batteries. Any information about the compatability will be posted on the Psychology Software Tools website and this discussion group. To address your specific concern about the hardware key compatability. I have recently installed Windows XP SP2 on a few machines and have had no issues with the hardware key or driver. I am using the latest version of the driver which as of this writing is version 4.95. To ensure you have the latest version of the hardware key driver, make sure you have Windows Update set to "auto update" configuration and it will automatically find the HASP hardware key that PST uses for E-Prime and install the latest driver. For non-Windows XP users or to manually install the latest driver for the hardware key, download is available at http://www.pstnet.com/downloads/misc/HDD32.exe -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools ====================================== > >Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? > >I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. > >Best Regards > >Tony Andrews >Senior Computer Officer >School of Psychology >University of Leicester >University Road >Leicester LE1 7RH >Tel: 0116 223 1709 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Fri Aug 13 13:39:29 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:39:29 +0100 Subject: Windows XP, SP2 Message-ID: Many thanks Brandon. I should have stressed that the reports I have heard were not in relation to use with E-Prime specifically. Best Regards Tony Andrews ________________________________ From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Brandon Cernicky Sent: Fri 13/08/2004 14:35 To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: RE: Windows XP, SP2 At this time Psychology Software Tools is not aware of any incompatabilities with E-Prime 1.x and Windows XP SP2. Informal reports by end users have been requested about these compatability issues. Psychology Software Tools is investingating these reports and conducting their own set of test batteries. Any information about the compatability will be posted on the Psychology Software Tools website and this discussion group. To address your specific concern about the hardware key compatability. I have recently installed Windows XP SP2 on a few machines and have had no issues with the hardware key or driver. I am using the latest version of the driver which as of this writing is version 4.95. To ensure you have the latest version of the hardware key driver, make sure you have Windows Update set to "auto update" configuration and it will automatically find the HASP hardware key that PST uses for E-Prime and install the latest driver. For non-Windows XP users or to manually install the latest driver for the hardware key, download is available at http://www.pstnet.com/downloads/misc/HDD32.exe -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools ====================================== > >Has anybody tried using E-Studio on an XP machine after installing SP2? > >I ask because I heard SP2 is breaking HASP drivers. > >Best Regards > >Tony Andrews >Senior Computer Officer >School of Psychology >University of Leicester >University Road >Leicester LE1 7RH >Tel: 0116 223 1709 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From e.whiting at uq.edu.au Wed Aug 18 06:33:45 2004 From: e.whiting at uq.edu.au (Ms Emma WHITING) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:33:45 +1000 Subject: eprime question Message-ID: I was wondering if eprime is capable of accepting letter strings (such as whole words that may be real words or nonwords) as responses from subjects, or can it only accept a single letter/number response? Thanks, Emma Whiting From klatsky at oswego.edu Wed Aug 18 13:57:23 2004 From: klatsky at oswego.edu (Gary Klatsky) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:57:23 -0400 Subject: eprime question In-Reply-To: <11244e112cdb.112cdb11244e@uq.edu.au> Message-ID: The only way I have been able to input text strings is by using the Askbox function in a script Gary J. Klatsky, Ph. D. Director, Human Computer Interaction M.A. Program Department of Psychology klatsky at oswego.edu Oswego State University (SUNY) http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky 7060 State Hwy 104W Voice: (315) 312-3474 Oswego, NY 13126 Fax: (315) 312-6330 -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org]On Behalf Of Ms Emma WHITING Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:34 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: eprime question I was wondering if eprime is capable of accepting letter strings (such as whole words that may be real words or nonwords) as responses from subjects, or can it only accept a single letter/number response? Thanks, Emma Whiting From odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de Wed Aug 18 14:10:12 2004 From: odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de (Georg Odenthal) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:10:12 +0200 Subject: eprime question Message-ID: Hello Emma, To get ePrime to collect String input click on the "advanced" button in the Duration/ Input tab (after adding the keyboard as input device and putting {ANY} in the allowable field). In the Keyboard Advanced Properties set the maximum number of characters allowed as input. [But be careful, backspace is also counted as character. That is, if somebody types 5 characters and deletes them again 10 characters are counted - that seems to be a bug in ePrime ... or maybe a feature? ;-) So always enter a lot larger number for allowed characters than what you really want to allow your subjects to enter] You can also specify a termination response, e.g. {ENTER} for the return key. On the Collection tab you should set the "response mode" to alphanumeric if you don't want your subjects typing in punctuation marks. You should leave "process backspace" to yes if you want your subjects to be able to delete their input again. But you will have to deal with the backspace problem described above if backspace is being processed. Finally on the "echo" tab you have to add a screen display in order to display the typed text string on the screen. Without a screen display your subjects won't see what they type. You can use the size of the screen display to limit the visible text field. If you want your subjects to enter a maximum of 30 characters and want them to be able to delete as many characters as possible you should enter e.g. 999 as "max count" on the General tab and then limit the screen display so that only 30 of these will be presented on the screen. Then your subjects can type and delete 999 characters, but will only see about 30 (this amount can vary depending on the characters being typed since ePrime uses proportional spaced font) on the screen and assume that this is the maximum they are allowed to type. Best regards, Georg Odenthal ========================================================================= Georg Odenthal (Dipl.-Psych.) University of Konstanz +49 (0)7531 88-2872 Department of Psychology odenthal at soz.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de Social Psychology and Motivation http://www.socpsych.uni-konstanz.de 78457 Konstanz, Germany ========================================================================= From paulj at psy.uq.edu.au Wed Aug 18 21:55:48 2004 From: paulj at psy.uq.edu.au (Paul R. Jackson) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:55:48 +1000 Subject: eprime question In-Reply-To: <11244e112cdb.112cdb11244e@uq.edu.au> Message-ID: Easy, see example at: www.psy.uq.edu.au/~paulj/resp-string.es Basically on the response options section of the object that you want to collect the string from click the 'advanced' button. Then 'MaxCount' is max characters in the string and 'Termination Response' is the character that stops data collection (i.e. '{ENTER}'). NB: you can echo it to the screen if you like by also going to the 'Echo' tab and clicking 'Add', then 'Edit' the Echo object to change colors and placement. Give me a yell if you have any problems. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul R. Jackson Experimental Programmer School of Psychology University of Queensland E:paulj at psy.uq.edu.au P:3365-6713 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Ms Emma WHITING > Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2004 4:34 PM > To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: eprime question > > I was wondering if eprime is capable of accepting letter > strings (such as whole words that may be real words or > nonwords) as responses from subjects, or can it only accept a > single letter/number response? > > Thanks, > Emma Whiting > > > > From kevinpeters at trentu.ca Thu Aug 26 18:13:18 2004 From: kevinpeters at trentu.ca (Kevin Peters) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:13:18 -0400 Subject: Eprime question Message-ID: Hi, I am new to Eprime and am trying to create a Digit Span task similar to the WAIS-R. I would like the numbers to appear on the screen, one at a time (duration = 1 sec and ISI = 1sec). I need some advice on how to best do this. More specifically, how do I terminate the program early if someone fails two consecutive trials before the end of the experiment (e.g., at the 6 digits level) without losing data? Thanks, Kevin Kevin Peters, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Trent University 1600 West Bank Drive Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8 Phone: (705) 748-1011 x5395 Fax: (705) 748-1580 From kirschen at stanford.edu Fri Aug 27 21:05:23 2004 From: kirschen at stanford.edu (Matthew Kirschen) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:05:23 -0700 Subject: creating .wav files Message-ID: I was wondering if anyone knew of a good program (shareware or commercial, any platform) for creating auditory wav files from written text. I'm programming an experiment looking at the difference between auditory and visual working memory. I currently have a list of 5000 words for the visual condition, but I'm having difficulty creating auditory versions of the words. I'm searching for a program which will input a list of words, digitize them in a spoken voice and create and save a .wav file (which I can then read into E-prime). I'm trying to avoid the daunting task of speaking 5000 words into a microphone. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. thankx mk ********************************************************** Matthew Kirschen, SMS V Stanford University School of Medicine Lucas MRS Imaging Center, MC: 5488 1201 Welch Road Stanford, CA 94305-5488 kirschen at stanford.edu (650) 724-8029 From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Tue Aug 31 19:27:00 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:27:00 +0100 Subject: creating .wav files In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040827135807.02047828@kirschen.pobox.stanford.edu> Message-ID: Matthew There are a number of laborious options, but probably the best, if you can handle a little Java is to use http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php It's a library to do text-to-speech in Java. You could write a quick program that would go through your files and spit out sounds. The low quality included voices sound like 50s robots, but there are instructions for getting higher quality voices. Best Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Tel: 0116 223 1709 From: Matthew Kirschen Sent: Fri 27/08/2004 22:05 To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: creating .wav files I was wondering if anyone knew of a good program (shareware or commercial, any platform) for creating auditory wav files from written text. I'm programming an experiment looking at the difference between auditory and visual working memory. I currently have a list of 5000 words for the visual condition, but I'm having difficulty creating auditory versions of the words. I'm searching for a program which will input a list of words, digitize them in a spoken voice and create and save a .wav file (which I can then read into E-prime). I'm trying to avoid the daunting task of speaking 5000 words into a microphone. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. thankx mk ********************************************************** Matthew Kirschen, SMS V Stanford University School of Medicine Lucas MRS Imaging Center, MC: 5488 1201 Welch Road Stanford, CA 94305-5488 kirschen at stanford.edu (650) 724-8029 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: