Usage

Using mSpelling

mSpelling presents any auditory stimuli you want and saves the participant’s response. To use mSpelling you must specify a folder where to read the stimuli from and where to save the data collected. We call this folder a workspace.

Workspace

A workspace is just a folder that contains a folder named stim. mSpelling reads the stimuli to be presented from the stim folder. Inside the stim folder, you specify the stim in a simple text (extension .txt) file called stim

mSpelling reads the stimuli to be presented from a folder inside the workspace that must be named stim (e.g., workspace/stim). The stim folder must contain 2 things:

  1. a text file (extension .txt) called stim, where each line contains a single word to be presented to the participant

  2. the audio files (extension .wav) that contain the audio to present for each word. The name of these files must be the word itself (i.e., if the stimulus is the word dog, the audio file must be named dog)

Warning

mSpelling will not work if the word and audio stimuli are not in the folder it expects.

You can download a demo workspace to try mSpelling out! Don’t forget to extract the contents of the workspace by openning it.

Data

The data will be saved to a file called mspelling_data.sqlite inside the workspace. This file will contain the data for all participants.