Data files storing as voice - no voice recording (case 2954)

[jason_reed]

Hi jkl,

Let me see if I can help you stop this from happening; any loss of data is definitely something we don't want to see.

The Voice folder should only be created if you have a Voice Response Item in a questionnaire file. Is there Voice item in the questionnaire files of your study or any other study using MediaLab on the computers?

Psychboiler

[pezlab]

Hi jkl,

What's most puzzling is that this is happening on different computers and in different conditions.

Psychboiler's suggestion is a good one, and double checking your questionnaires and experiments for proper structure is definitely the place to start

If you are intending to record a voice response and that item is present, it might also be helpful to see if there is anything about the 20 participants who do not have voice data but should have in common. Perhaps they are all giving a response or a combination or responses that is causing there to be an error in how the questionnaire/experiment is being administered. We can hope that what appears random will actually have some pattern emerge.

[timdritchie]

Hi. I agree with what others have said about this issue. Assuming that you never meant for your participants to provide vocal responses, the easiest thing to do is to simply review each .que file on each computer, check the Item Type column for instances of "Voice Response".

Making sure that option is not specified will indicate that there could be a problem with MediaLab.

If you know that no Voice Response option is specified in any of the files you are using on each of the machines that you are using, then I recommend that you share one of files with the group, so we can review for clues.