Playing a sound to the participant

If the project you are working on uses an autodialer, some questions might require you to play a prerecorded sound to the participant. For example, the question might ask for the participant’s opinion on an advertising jingle.

The question text will normally indicate that you must play a sound after you have asked the question. Sometimes, there might be a separate sound for each answer in a multiple-choice question, and you will need to play these one after the other.

If you are required to play a sound, the following buttons will appear close to the question text or, for some multiple-choice questions, the answer texts:

Button	Description
	Play the sound
	Stop playing the sound

Item that has a sound	Keyboard shortcut to play or stop playing the sound
A question	Ctrl+Shift+P
An answer to a multiple-choice question	Shift+n, where n is the answer number shown on the screen. For example, Shift+4 for answer number 4. If the answer number is 10 or more, hold down the Shift key while you type the number.
A special response to a numeric, text, date/time, or yes/no question	Ctrl+Shift+n, where n indicates the nth special response shown on the screen. For example, Ctrl+Shift+2 for the 2nd special response.
A question that does not require an answer, but simply contains other questions	It is not possible to use the keyboard to play a sound for this type of question – you must use the mouse.

Note For some browsers, pressing the keyboard shortcut alone will perform the action. For other browsers, you might have to press Enter after pressing the keyboard shortcut.

If more than one question is displayed on the screen, make sure that you move the cursor to the question with the Play and Stop buttons before you press the keyboard shortcuts.