SpeechSynthesizer or Run external process...

[fxRichard]

Seems System.Speech.Synthesis namespace is not available in NT8. Any way we can do speech synthesis or at least run an external process from NT8 that can do it?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fxRichard,

This would fall under general C# and would not be a documented NinjaScript item.

That said, have you added a reference to the dll?

Below is a link to a 3rd party guide.

http://www.wpf-tutorial.com/audio-video/speech-synthesis-making-wpf-talk/

Also, below is a link to another thread that discusses speech synthesis.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=86606

[KhaosTrader]

Its easy to do, look at this thread, has code, I managed to make dynamic speech synthesis as well as load text files to read them dynamically..

This thread has some code that should help you...

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=86606

[KhaosTrader]

I have a class that does it, if you need the code let me know, I can post.

The thread I put in the prior post explains how to put in the speech.dll so it can be accessed in your ninjascript

[catinabag]

HI KhaosTrader,

I am playing with System.Speech.Synthesis using NT8, and I would truly appreciate your posting the code to access the dll properly!

I am basically just trying to get it to say ' Bars.Instrument.MasterInstrument.Name + "up" or "down" ' based on whether it is crossing a key trendline.

Any help from you would be truly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

[catinabag]

Hello again,

I got it to work in the rudimentary sense: there's a simplistic example from Microsoft here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dot...tframework-4.8

If you do this, however, it will literally speak each example through the entirety of the chart history every time you change indicators on your chart. That is not good!

To get around this, I believe the solution is to write a custom wav file for the symbol and then access that wav file in a standard NT8 Alert().

Microsoft lays out a simple way to create a speech synthesis wav file here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dot...tframework-4.8

So, I just wanted to jot down these notes in case anyone ever wants to try this themselves. I haven't finished it yet myself.