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 usually indicates 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 must play them one after the other.

If you are required to play a sound, the following buttons 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.