Issues with installing sound device

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Hi,

Could anyone please guide on how to install the sound device on psychopy version 1.3?

I’m trying to design a picture naming experiment where I want to record voice responses.
I get the following error message on running the experiment.

“Support for the sounddevice audio backend is not available this session. Please install psychopy-sounddevice and restart the session to enable support”

Any help will be much appreciated. :slight_smile:

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Please could you confirm the version you are referring to? 1.3 is over 10 years old. The earliest version I can see on Github is 1.81.

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Hi,

Thanks for your response. I just checked the version again and it’s 2023.1.3.

Should getting latest version fix the issue?

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Before upgrading, try ptb sound and also try Use Version 2022.2.5

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How do I use ptb sound? Sorry I am very new to psychopy and there’s a lot that I don’t understand how to work out.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Go to Experiment Settings and then Audio and try different libraries.

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I had to edit my psychopy config file userPrefs.cfg (mine was in C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\psychopy3)
as I had the situation where it referenced Sounddevice, which was removed in 2023 but still referenced in the cfg file and it complained it couldn’t find it when I came to run my experiment. Just edit the cfg file with a text editor and search and delete for offending references. (taking a backup first would be sensible)