audio presentation in Eprime, file duration question

[David McFarlane]

Anya,

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That said, here is my take...

On your Word 1 stimulus object, set Duration to (infinite), and End 
Sound Action to Terminate (you may also set Stop After to to No if 
you like, although in this case that will have no effect).

I cover this in lesson 7 of the online video course that we are preparing.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>I have a very simple experiment where people first hear Word 1, then
>there's a blank, then they hear Word 2, and need to decide if the two
>words can refer to the same person. The duration of Word 2 is
>indefinite, until the button is pressed. My question regards the
>duration of Word 1. I want the duration of this word to be as long/
>short as the duration of the actual audio file, so short words have
>the duration of, say, under a second, and the duration of longer words
>is over one sec. Eprime wants me to set the duration of my Audio out
>object to something, e.g., indefinite, 1000, 2000 etc. But i don't
>want to do that, instead i want the duration of each file to depend on
>the length of the word and thus each duration to be unique. Word 1 is
>then followed by a 250 ms blank, and then Word 2.
>
>How do i fix the duration of Word 1? How do i make the word
>presentation time as long as the actual word is? If i set the duration
>in Eprime to 1000 ms, then longer words are truncated. If i set the
>duration to say 1300, then i have lots of silence at the end of
>shorter words.
>
>Many thanks in advance!
>Anya

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