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Rating Test

A customisable tool for designing and carrying out listening tests (have a short look at what it can do there.

Copyright 2003-2004 Marc Schroeder. See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

Description

This software allows scientists to carry out listening tests without having to write code. Instead, all settings can be written into an XML-based configuration file.

The following can be customised:

• The welcome text to be shown;
• the layout of the (one- or two-dimensional) rating scale;
• the labels at the edges of the rating scale;
• the stimuli to be shown or played;
• in the case of audio stimuli, whether they can be played repeatedly;
• whether to include a practice session before the actual test.

Examples are included, based on tests which I have carried out in my research.

Usage

1. Prepare a test folder testFolder containing all your stimuli (textual and/or audio). The folder must contain a file "ratingtest.conf", which specifies all aspects of the test. Examples and instructions are in /group/contrib/nlp-speech/src/ratingtest/ratingtest-1.0/examples and README.txt
2. Start the test:
   cd testFolder/..
   java -jar ratingtest.jar testFolder

15/02/2006 V.Strom: Made a script nlp-speech/bin/ratingtest that just does "java -jar $WHERE_IT_SITS/ratingtest.jar $argv[1]"