Open-source software for speech perception research
Robert T. Gayvert, James M. Hillenbrand · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2003
The purpose of this paper is to describe some relatively simple software that can be used for performing such routine tasks as controlling listening experiments (e.g., simple labeling, discrimination using procedures such as ABX, oddity, same–different, etc., sentence intelligibility, magnitude estimation, and so on), recording responses and response latencies, analyzing and plotting the results of those experiments, displaying instructions, and making scripted audio recordings. The software runs under Windows and is controlled by creating text files that allow the experimenter to specify key features of the experiment such as the stimuli that are to be presented, the randomization scheme, inter-stimulus and inter-trial intervals, the format of the output file, and the layout of response alternatives on the screen. Some simple demonstrations will be provided, along with instructions for downloading the software. [Work supported by NIH.]