How-To: Teach MetaTrader 4 to Talk
Sound allerts or in Russian alerts have become a part of a trader's daily activities. The trading platform constantly makes some kind of sounds - connection to the network, price reaching a certain level, opening or closing a deal, etc.
As you already know from Articles In the "Secrets of the MetaTrader 4 Terminal" cycle, each trader can customize the sound alerts to his/her own taste. Is it possible to teach the MT4 terminal to talk? That is, not just play a sound, but voice what happens with the price? It turns out that it is possible, and in a very simple way!
Step 1: Write down the right phrase
- Open Google Translator.
- Enter the desired phrase, for example, "The price has broken through the level up.
- Click the "Listen" icon and a pleasant Google-girl voice voices the phrase we have written.
Step #2. Record the voice-over phrase into an audio file
- Right-click on the volume icon and select "Recorders".
- In the "Sound" window that appears, select "Stereo Mixer" in the "Recording" tab.
- Идем в меню «Пуск» — «Программы» — «Стандартная» — «Звукозапись». В итоге получаем панель звукозаписывающего устройства.
- Click the "Start Recording" button on the panel and the "Listen" button in Google Translator.
- After you finish recording, you save the file to a convenient location on your computer.
Step #3. File conversion (optional)
By default, your audio file will be recorded in wma format. If the terminal can't recognize it, you need to convert the file to wav format. To do this, you can use any free online file conversion service.
Step 4. Transferring the file to the MetaTrader 4 terminal
Move the resulting file to the MetaTrader4 folder \ Sounds
Taking advantage of the findings of the The Secrets of MetaTrader 4: How to Configure Audible Alerts" article knowledge, you can now set the sound alerts you need. You can record phrases for each currency pair, then google-girl will tell you exactly which pair has reached the right mark. Also it can be not only signals about the achievement of some levels, but also temporary ones - for example, "In 15 minutes the head of the Federal Reserve will speak", etc.
Thus, this peculiar life hack will allow you, spending very little time to record the necessary phrases, not to sit all the time at the terminal, and receive clear and understandable sound alerts, voiced by a pleasant female voice.