Hi,

I am planning to conduct a study on difficult sentence processing and we are interested in how participants read out a number of sentences aloud.

Now as we want to conduct the study online, the sentences would be administered in written form but participants responses would have to be recorded as audio files.

I know there are plugins to play audio files in limesurvey but i haven't found anything on actually recording audio-responses.

Could you help me out here, any help would be great!

Best,
audiolime

Hi all,

I found an applet that does exactly what I need: Nanogong. Is there any way to implement this into limesurvey?
Any hints or advice is greatly appreciated!
Esther

Esther-

If you have (or have access to) the PHP skills (or can make a suitable donation to LimeSurvey and find a developer who has bandwidth), adding Nanogong shouldn't be too hard. You would probably want to store a binary file, so you'd need a BLOB datatype, and none of the existing question types use that. So, you'd need to create a new question type to store the BLOB. I had to create the Equation question type a few months back, and it only took a few day's effort.

However, a lot depends on your timing. We're nearly ready to release version 1.92, which (knock on wood) will be the last in the 1.xx series. We're also nearing release of 2.0 alpha, which uses an entirely new framework. So, if you need something soon, you'd need to use the 1.xx approach, but it would need to be ported to 2.x. If you can wait about 3 months, it might be possible to build it directly into the 2.0 branch.

/Tom

The easy way would be to link to their demo page at gong.ust.hk/nanogong/nanogong42.html from within the survey, telling them to record the voice and store the file locally. Then use a file upload question type at Limesurvey and let them upload their file.

Thank you to both of you for your time and consideration! I finally managed to integrate the applet into a text-only style question.

The Nanogong setup was explained very well on their website, the only thing that was a little bit difficult was to get the path right so that limesurvey could find the applet. I did this with "codebase", if anybody else wants to try it I can send you the code I used.

The next step will be to edit the name of the audio file the applet generates, I somehow need to pass on the value of limesurvey's {savedid} to the php script nanogong uses, if you have any ideas I would be very thankful: See my new post

Best regards,
Esther

Answered - www.limesurvey.org/en/forum/can-i-do-thi...o-another-php-script

audiolime wrote: Please open a ticket at our bugtracker at the "user patches" section and attach your code files there. The forum is cleaned up regularly so this might get lost if you post it here.

When you are done, please post the link to the bugtracker ticket here.
Thanks!

Would you mind sharing the code with me? I am trying to do the exact same thing without much luck.

-Thanks Bryan

Here, I have submitted my solution to the bugtracker:

[url=http://http://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=5663]http://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=5663[/url]

The two code files you need are attached to the question, receiver.php and the nanogong question code that you copy into your limesurveys question source code field. If you still have problems, let me know!

Hi all,

I have a further question concerning this issue - I would like to modify the "next" button in the survey for the questions that require an audio recording. Everytime a participant clicks on "next", the script should check if a file with a specific name exists in a specific folder.

I wonder where I could make these changes to the next button, is that something for the question template? I think that once I figure out where to change the code the actual 'check-if-file-exists' will be pretty easy, I just don't know where to start.

I would be very thankful for some tips!
Best,
Esther