Vocal response trigger next stimulus present. shall I use voicekey()? How?

Hi,

I am using PsychoPy to design a new experiment with vocal response under coder view, but I met some problems with the “voicekey” hope you could help me with. I only have a little experience with coding, and I just started to use vocal response. Many thanks in advance.

Basically, I want to present a visual stimuli and ask participants to respond vocally, and the vocal response could immediately trigger the presentation of next stimulus without any preset delay. At the same time, response time should be collected. I am trying to use voicekey() to achieve this, but failed, I have no idea where it goes wrong. Here is my code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function

from psychopy import prefs
prefs.hardware['audioLib'] = ['pyo']

from psychopy import sound

from builtins import range
from psychopy import microphone, core, visual, event,monitors,data,locale_setup, gui , logging
import numpy as np

import os
import sys 

import psychopy.voicekey as vk
vk.pyo_init()

from pyo import *
s=Server()
s.boot()

trialClock = core.Clock()
bgColor="black"

monitors.calibTools.monitorFolder = ''
myWin = visual.Window((960,540), allowGUI=True,screen = 0, monitor='sozPsyMon2', fullscr=False, units ='norm', color = bgColor, winType='pyglet')
Mouse = event.Mouse(visible=False, newPos=None, win=None)

uword = visual.TextStim(myWin, ori=0, name='upword', font='Arial',
    pos=[0,0.8], height=0.10, wrapWidth=None,
    color='white', colorSpace='rgb', opacity=1,
    depth=0.0)
    # up words


locM_stim = visual.ImageStim(myWin, image=None,pos=(0,0))

buffer_size = 128
rate = 44100 
sound.init(buffer=buffer_size, rate=rate)

microphone.switchOn()
mic = microphone.AdvAudioCapture()

def phase_1():
    for i in range(3):
        trial_1()
        
framelength = myWin.monitorFramePeriod

def get_resp():
    response,rt= event.waitKeys(keyList=["q","p"], timeStamped=trialClock)[0]
    return response, rt


def trial_1():
    vpvk = vk.OnsetVoiceKey()
    vpvk = vk.OffsetVoiceKey(file_out='data/trial.wav')
    
    locM_stim.setImage("materials/EmjAn04.png")
    locM_stim.setAutoDraw(True)
    vpvk.start()
    vpvk.tStart=trialClock.getTime()
    
    frameN = -1 # number of completed frames (so 0 is the first frame)
    while frameN < int(round(2.0/framelength)):
        frameN += 1
        myWin.flip()
        # I tried to add an "if" here to stop the onsetvoicekey but it doesn't work.
     
    vpvk.stop()
    locM_stim.setAutoDraw(False)
    
    print(round(vpvk.event_onset, 3))
    
    
    uword.setText("P")
    uword.draw()
    myWin.callOnFlip(trialClock.reset) 
    myWin.flip()
    resp,rt = get_resp()
    print(resp,rt)
    
    myWin.flip()
    core.wait(0.5)

phase_1()

myWin.close()
core.quit()

Any help is appreciated!!! Thanks!

Hi Jin,

Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with voice capture myself, but I found this forum post from 2017 that suggests it might not be possible to do what you want:

Hopefully someone else can weigh in? Maybe someone has found a solution to this in the past 2 years!

Good luck,
Anne

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Hi Jin,

I would like to do this for a picture naming experiment I’m working on now. Did you ever find a solution?

Thanks,
Jessie