Recording voice response in a questionnaire file in MediaLab

[ychang]

Hi,

I am having trouble in recording voice responses. Could someone offer my any solutions?

1. I would like to record participant's 3 minute-long response in one item in a questionnaire file in MediaLab v2012. I have followed the instruction on the manual and I have set the file name as a .wav file. I run through the item and spoke something into the microphone. I then found a .wav in the voice files, but it does not really record anything when I played. It seems that the item is only creating a file there for recording so far, but it is not really recording. Can someone help me solve this?

2. I would like to place a countdown timer on the same page with the item of voice response. The way suggested by the manual (d-180) does not show up any countdown timer. From previous posts, I could show the countdown timer through html. However, it says in the manual script that we can not collect data on the item with html. Does anyone have any solutions or ideas?

3. According to the manual, we can change the color of the words in the questionnaire file. However, when followed the manual, I click on edit and preferences on my MediaLab 2012, it only shows up "fonts", but no "colors."
Can anyone help me this as well?

Thank you very much.

Best,
ychang