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Streamlabs Text-to-Speech (TTS) function is a fun tool included in Alert Box that can increase audience engagement and encourage users to send in additional tips to hear their message played out loud.
Here's How It Works
When Text-to-Speech is enabled, your viewers will hear their message live on stream when they send a tip.
TTS can be a fun tool, but given the nature of the internet, it can get offensive if used to troll creators. Today, we are going to discuss how you can enable Text-to-Speech and ensure your live stream will still comply with the terms of service of your streaming platform of choice.
How to Enable
Step 1: First, add an Alert Box source to your stream in Streamlabs Desktop. You need an Alert Box source in your stream in order for Text-to-Speech to work. While TTS works for both bits and tips, we'll be focusing on tips for demonstration purposes.
Step 2: Next, navigate to Streamlabs.com, login, and click on Alert Box on the left-hand side.
From here, click on Tips (or bits) from the list of various alert types.
Step 3: Last, you can click on the Text-to-Speech drop-down menu to access the settings. Here you can customize your settings by choosing the minimum tip amount required to trigger TTS and TTS voice. You can choose from over 50 different voices, including a variety of languages.
Text-to-Speech also has a spam filter that will help control how long it will read before stopping. This setting helps control common spam such as "wwwwwwwww".
By default, this is turned off, but most users will want to set this to the Low or Medium setting. If you find that some messages are getting cut off, feel free to turn this setting off.
Once you're happy with your settings, toggle TTS on. It should now say Enabled and the next time someone sends a tip, you'll hear their message out loud on your live stream.
Repeat the steps above to customize bits with Text-to-Speech alerts.
Profanity Filter
As you can imagine, having a message played out loud can be pretty risky. To ensure your content remains within the terms of service for your streaming platform(s) of choice, you can adjust a variety of profanity settings for tips to guarantee that your audience won't hear anything you don't want them to.
To access profanity settings click on General Settings from the list of various alert types. Check out the image below for an example.
With Streamlabs Alert Box, a default profanity filter is applied that will filter bad words out of a message. Our profanity filter will prevent the words from showing on the screen and will thereby stop it from being said out loud when you have Text-to-Speech enabled.
For additional customization, you can choose how you'd like bad words filtered. For example, you can replace bad words with happy words, hide messages containing bad words, or even disable alerts containing bad words completely.
Our profanity filter will catch most bad words, however, you can add custom bad words to the list as well, like the example below.
We hope you find TTS useful for engaging your audience and encouraging tipping. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know by contacting us or joining our Discord server.