Interactive Text/Highlight Question

nroyal

Hi,

I am currently trying to prepare a project where we want participants to be able to interact with text. They will be given a text and asked to highlight specific words within it. Once they have marked the words or sentences they consider important in the text, participants will be prompted to explain the reasons behind their choices. However, instead of writing down their reasons, they should be able to verbally express them, and these verbal responses will be transcribed using a text-to-speech application. There are text-to-speech applications available with APIs, and I am wondering whether it is feasible to implement all these functionalities in Open Sesame. The experiment will be conducted on touch screen tablets.

Thank you in advance :-)

eduard

Hi nroyal!

Yes, this sounds possible, but requires quite a bit of coding. I hope you have some experience with it :)

They will be given a text and asked to highlight specific words within it.

There are different ways of doing it, at varying difficulties also, depending on how complex you want to make it. The touch aspect makes it a bit more complex than a standard pc set up. But based on small ROIs around the touches and the positions of the words, you should be able to implement some marking algorithm.

There are text-to-speech applications available with APIs, and I am wondering whether it is feasible to implement all these functionalities in Open Sesame.

If there is an api it most likely will work in Opensesame, however, given that once transcribed, the actual speech is gone, I wonder whether it might be better to first save the raw speech (as sound), and do the conversion later. If the transcription is bad for whatever reason, you have no way of getting your data back. You know?

Does this help?

Eduard