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  • #1
  • First Post: Edited Aug 5, 2013 12:37pm Jan 20, 2013 3:58pm | Edited Aug 5, 2013 12:37pm
When MT4 first came out it had a speach function which they quickly
removed for some reason or another. There is a dll file that was created
5-6 years ago but did not get any usage, dont know if it stills works or not.

What I have created any executable that uses microsofts COM objects
"Component Object Model", to re-introduce a speach function into MT.

This can leed to meny other posibilities, like having MT communicate
directly with other programs like Microsoft Excell, enbedding a whole
lot of other capabilities. using COM objects and ActiveX objects.

there is an executable file located in the zip file, if you do not trust me
then dont run it. If you what to run it you must install it in your main
MT directory, it will not function in any other directory as MT will not
find it nor did I have any other knowledge of any ones directory structure
except the main MT directory.

Before you use it you have to double click it (after you put it in the MT
directory) to get a list of voice files located on your machine and to
set up the files. The attached pic is the list on my machine.
These 3 files are standard on all MS software sence XP.

There will be a script file in your script folder named 'Test Script' that has
examples of how to code it to run the program all you need to do to attach
it to your code is to add the include file named "speach funtions.mqh"
(sorry I misspelled it) to any code that you want that includes indicators
EAs and scripts. This program will not block your code from running as the
programs runs in its own thread in the back ground.

To late to explain this any more theres some notes in the include
file that explains more. This can make adding voice alerts to indicators
and EAs real easy.

Keit

edit[ new version to be posted sometime this week ]
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  • #2
  • Jan 20, 2013 9:02pm Jan 20, 2013 9:02pm
hey keit...... thanks..... speech alerts is what i use now.....

all my dashboard alerts speak , telling me the pair, timeframe , buy or sell and signal...... or when a order is opened or closed it tells me......

my method is kinda hokey and clunky..... it's no better than using the 'read out aloud' function on pdf's.....


your code is way way over my head, but i'll sure give it a try...... thanks again.....h
to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
  • #3
  • Jan 20, 2013 11:09pm Jan 20, 2013 11:09pm
brother, I am very much interested in the desk top you are having which shows world market times, can you please share it?
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  • #4
  • Jan 21, 2013 1:17pm Jan 21, 2013 1:17pm
Iam very suprized your the first one to notice that world clock desk top.
Here is a full picture of it had it so long I forgot were I got it.
But I always keep back ups of every thing I know that I have the
original installation program some were. Give me some time to
find it. Its free on internet but I cant remember the web site.
it has QQQ or Q++ in the address if I remember right.

You can notice on the full screen shot that theres no desk top
icons.

Keit



Quoting Fortuner-Z
brother, I am very much interested in the desk top you are having which shows world market times, can you please share it?
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  • #5
  • Jan 21, 2013 1:35pm Jan 21, 2013 1:35pm
HaySeed

I am going to post an update to that program. I was asked to expose the default settings so
they can be set by the user instead of hard codeing. And this version creates files in the back
ground with out giving the user the option to cancell them. the program generates the include
file and a sample test script. with in the include and script directories. I will expose these to
give the user the option to have them generated.

This is not really hi-tech, what I wanted to do was test out how to get MT to do more. What I
have created is more like a bridge that can join MT to other programs useing COM objects.

If you have some nice voice files let me know all I have are the microsoft family which are
kindof inbread. Looked on the internet but could not find any (free ones)


Keit




Quoting hayseed
hey keit...... thanks..... speech alerts is what i use now.....

all my dashboard alerts speak , telling me the pair, timeframe , buy or sell and signal...... or when a order is opened or closed it tells me......

my method is kinda hokey and clunky..... it's no better than using the 'read out aloud' function on pdf's.....


your code is way way over my head, but i'll sure give it a try...... thanks again.....h
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  • #6
  • Jan 21, 2013 8:44pm Jan 21, 2013 8:44pm
do share it bro, as soon as u manage to find it...
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  • #7
  • Jan 22, 2013 8:29am Jan 22, 2013 8:29am
Quoting CockeyedCowboy
the microsoft family which are
kindof inbread.
//----

hey keit..... yeah, they do sound inbred......

over the years i've tried everything within my abilities..... i even had priscilla say all the pairs, timeframes and buy/sell signals.... converted them to individual wavs...... then loaded everything into multi-deminisonal arrays and/or single arrays.... this allowed me to call each specific pair/timeframe/signal and using multiple playsound()'s i could string them together creating any sentence..... it worked but not good.... stringing playsounds()'s together is not easy in dashboards......

resigned to using the dll.... it's far more flexible but has that inbred clunky voice......h
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  • #8
  • Jan 24, 2013 1:03am Jan 24, 2013 1:03am
brother did u got the wall paper .exe?
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  • #9
  • Jan 24, 2013 6:09am Jan 24, 2013 6:09am
Quoting Fortuner-Z
brother did u got the wall paper .exe?
try this
  • #10
  • Jan 24, 2013 1:28pm Jan 24, 2013 1:28pm
Quoting euclid
try this

Thanks euclid

I did forget to look for this this is the site were I got the wallpaper
www.qppstudio.net/freeware/qpp_world_clocks_freeware.htm

My copy is about 6 - 7 years old, so this will get you the latest
verision.

Again, thanks euclid

Keit


edit[ the color changed with out changing it]
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  • #11
  • Jan 24, 2013 10:34pm Jan 24, 2013 10:34pm
Quoting euclid
try this
thankyou but I did tried it, but I wasnt getting the exact results....

thankyou cowboy
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  • #12
  • Jan 28, 2013 1:06pm Jan 28, 2013 1:06pm
Quoting Fortuner-Z
thankyou but I did tried it, but I wasnt getting the exact results....

thankyou cowboy

What do you mean 'EXACT' results, whats different? The title on top is add by me and the GMT time on the bottom center is also creatively added. but the rest should be the same?


Keit
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  • #13
  • Mar 10, 2013 7:13pm Mar 10, 2013 7:13pm
I've writen a new version to this program, Its use is similar to the old version but it can also create free standing wav files that can be called within your MQ code. Still have a few bugs to kill. will post it this week if time permits.

This code was created as a test to see if I could expand on MTs capabilities. Not that this program can be the best wav file creator, one can find other software that is better, but they can not be progarmed in real time into MT. This one also encorperated a mini coding language as well to torcher the MS family to speak like they were schooled in english.

With this, one could expand this to Speech Recognition to tell MT (in your own words) what to do. as in "move the bloody stops..." or "open long, 1 lot, at market..." interesting idea.

If some one is interested in testing this software let me know.

Its late, lots to do tomorrow, time to go.

Keit
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  • #14
  • Mar 11, 2013 2:18am Mar 11, 2013 2:18am
Quoting CockeyedCowboy
I've writen a new version to this program,

If some one is interested in testing this software let me know.



Keit
Keit,
As you know MT4 has the problem of cutting off alerts when multiple alerts happen about the same time. This has always annoyed me. I was wondering if this would be a work around MT4 cutting off the currently played alert to play the next one? In other words, would I be able to hear both alerts that happen about the same time even if they both played in their entirety at the same time or one after another? Or would the alerts still be cut off by the next alert if they happen around the same time? I have recorded some of my own wav files for alerts with my own voice but with MT4 not being able to play multiple alerts at the same time it's not much of a help actually. I would love to find a work around for this...

Thank You,
SatchFan
  • #15
  • Mar 11, 2013 5:28am Mar 11, 2013 5:28am
SatchFan

If your using the playsound() function there is no help because it must run in the MT's main thread. So if you create a sound.wav file it will work the same way no matter which program creates it.

The program I create will create sound .wav files just like any other software. Where mine differs is that you can program into your code (in words) what you want it to say in real time and it will get feed into a speech stream to be spoken by this software in a seperate thread outside of MT. As an example the function call is like SpeakEasy( "say this sentence", "MS Mary", volume=75, pitch=0, rate=0, timed=10, usetags=true ) Or just SpeakEasy( "say this sentence" ) and the function call will use all the default setting without the need to defind them. Now the kicker is that, "say this Sentence" and also include variables and or calculations. as in '"The current market price is " + (( Bid + Ask ) / 2 )'. also you can create very different speech with the use of XML tags enbedded in to the speech text, both in real time or when you create wave files. As an example you can have 2 different voices talking to each other within the same speech stream or with in the same .wav file. You can very all the speech parameters on the fly, that is voice, volume, pitch, and rate. With the use of tags you can also emphasize words, change the Language, force spelling of words, giving priority with in the stream to have one sentence stop to let another sentence with high priority speak, or even two voice speak in unison this is just a sample of what you can do with XML tags enbedded within the text.

Keit


Quoting SatchFan
Keit,
As you know MT4 has the problem of cutting off alerts when multiple alerts happen about the same time. This has always annoyed me. I was wondering if this would be a work around MT4 cutting off the currently played alert to play the next one? In other words, would I be able to hear both alerts that happen about the same time even if they both played in their entirety at the same time or one after another? Or would the alerts still be cut off by the next alert if they happen around the same time? I have recorded some of my own wav files for...
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  • #16
  • Mar 12, 2013 5:39am Mar 12, 2013 5:39am
Quoting CockeyedCowboy
SatchFan

Where mine differs is that you can program into your code (in words) what you want it to say in real time and it will get feed into a speech stream to be spoken by this software in a seperate thread outside of MT.

As an example you can have 2 different voices talking to each other within the same speech stream or with in the same .wav file. You can very all the speech parameters on the fly, that is voice, volume, pitch, and rate.

Quoting CockeyedCowboy
SatchFan
With the use of tags you can also emphasize words, change the Language, force spelling of words, giving priority with in the stream to have one sentence stop to let another sentence with high priority speak, or even two voice speak in unison this is just a sample of what you can do with XML tags enbedded within the text.

I'm hooked. I'm not a coder but if you don't mind posting a few examples I don't mind trying to get my mind wrapped around it... I've been wanting to find a way around this limitation for a long time and I think this is it....
Looking forward to the new release.

SatchFan
  • #17
  • Mar 13, 2013 12:29pm Mar 13, 2013 12:29pm
SatchFan

I have a bug within the code that is killing me to find. You have although given me some other ideas. What I think is I will post a cut down temperary version that does what you want. and work on the other options as I try to find the bug.

This code was used as a tests of other ideas and the code was writen and writen meany times the code is not my typical work and I'am going to have to rewrite it again as a completed project, however will give you a temperary version to test if it will do what you want. Iam very bussy so dont hold your breath in the mean time.

Keit
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  • #18
  • Mar 13, 2013 5:20pm Mar 13, 2013 5:20pm
Quoting CockeyedCowboy
SatchFan

I have a bug within the code that is killing me to find. You have although given me some other ideas. What I think is I will post a cut down temperary version that does what you want. and work on the other options as I try to find the bug.

This code was used as a tests of other ideas and the code was writen and writen meany times the code is not my typical work and I'am going to have to rewrite it again as a completed project, however will give you a temperary version to test if it will do what you want. Iam very bussy so dont hold...
Keit,
Don't feel like you have to post any special version for me. If it's not ready, it's not ready. I can wait, no problemo at all.... I'll be here when it's ready. Hopefully when you re-write it everything goes smooth for ya! Take your time...

SatchFan
  • #19
  • Mar 25, 2013 4:27pm Mar 25, 2013 4:27pm
Keit,
I have downloaded a Free Trial of Ivona Reader and got 2 voices along with it. I mainly wanted to see if they could be used with your program since they are vastly superior to the windows Anna voice. It shows up in the Text to Speech voice selection properties so it looks like I could use them if I decided to buy them. I have been using Ivona reader to read me some text and pdf's etc. to see if I like the voices and they are pretty good actually. I have downloaded a couple of other programs but like the Ivona reader better. This is going to be a lot of fun I think once the program your working on is done!

SatchFan

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  • #20
  • Mar 26, 2013 6:59pm Mar 26, 2013 6:59pm
When I was using Amibroker back in the day, it has a command similar to this that used the microsoft voice. I remember the voice on my windows 98 box was terrible compare to the XP machine. I really liked that functionality, and it did not interrupt itself!.

I think what you are doing is using the same OS functionality as that Amibroker command used. If you can get it to work in a simple version that just lets the user pass the text, no bells or whistles, and the user selects the voice engine from the OS, that would be a huge thumbs up.
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