User's Manual

Sybox manual (AI-02.02)
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II. Sybox Opto-4 the Articulograph AG501 synchronization platform
A. Sybox Function
1. Synchronizing other systems with the Articulograph AG501
With the Sybox-Opto4 there are status-, trigger- and pretrigger signals available to be used by
other systems. It is possible to synchronize up to four other computer or systems with the
speech movement recording.
Fig. 1: Sybox-Opto4 front- and backside view
2. Direct access to the low level system signals
3. Signal functions
Status signals “PSR_dn” and “T_active”
This signals in “LOW” condition show that both programs (maggen and senrec) are running
normally.
Trigger signal “Sweep”
The sweep signal is in active (LOW) condition as long as the speech movement recording is in
progress.
Fig. 2: The Attention signal becomes active 80ms before recording starts