Can't record speech onset with mic component

[frankgarcea]

Hi fhechler,

Just curious if you ever found a solution? It sounds like I’ve had a similar issue as you.

Saving trial-level audio output in real time

Hi everyone, I wanted to follow up here, as we’ve made progress on this issue but have not found a long-term solution. The problem was that our picture naming task (attached above) would randomly crash. It’s likely that we were recording at too high a temporal resolution. When we dropped it to 16k it appeared we found a solution. Problem solved! Not quite… Now we experience a similar surface level behavior: We’ll be running the picture naming task and the experiment will just freeze in the mi…

In my case, I had to lower my recording frequency to 16 k and that did the job. However, as you note, I’m still finding that my experiments will crash randomly. Really strange.

I see that @jens mentioned a solution to a somewhat related problem in this thread.

Issues with microphone recordings: AudioStreamError: Cannot stop a stream that has not been started

Update: What worked for me now was copying (instead moving) this piece of code to where you did Jose - meaning it’s actually twice now in the script.

I’m not entirely sure if this is the same issue I’m having. In my task a person names a picture using a microphone connected to an external voicekey device that converts the utterance to a button press. That press serves to measure RT relative to picture onset. Randomly in our experiments a trial will just freeze and we’ll have to restart the experiment. It’s really frustrating and I’m not entirely sure what’s going on.

FG