As a Twitch streamer, you know how important it is to entertain your viewers.
You must engage them in any way you can or they will quit watching your
channel in favor of something better. The Twitch Text-to-Speech feature
is a relatively hands-off approach to drive engagement. Hearing a robot
read Twitch text from chat can improve accessibility, help you engage your
audience, and even make people giggle. Users can spend their points on
Twitch to redeem a TTS voice message, which can influence other viewers
to stick around to spend theirs. You can also set up text-to-speech on
donations, meaning when a viewer pledges the minimum donation, the automated
voices will read aloud their message. Adding value to your viewers' time
and money can create quality content and loyalty. This short article will
help you enable TTS on Twitch to increase your viewership with minimal
effort.
Use Streamlabs to Enable TTS
Streamlabs is a steaming platform for streamers of all skill levels. You
can set up TTS for Twitch in a few steps.
Go to your Streamlabs Desktop account.
Add an Alert Box source to your stream.
Sign in to your Twitch account through the Streamlabs app.
Expand the menu.
Select "Alert Box."
Select "Donations."
Expand the drop-down menu.
Select the text-to-speech option.
When a viewer donates to your stream, everyone should hear their message
being read aloud.
Use StreamElements to Enable TTS
Setting up text to be read out loud is also straightforward with another
popular, high quality streaming platform. StreamElements can make sure
a chat message will be read on the air.
Sign in to your account via the StreamElements app.
Select "Streaming Tools."
Select "My Overlays."
Select the relevant alert overlay.
Select "Edit."
Select "Settings."
Click the gear icon for the alert that corresponds to the desired donation.
You can choose Cheers, Tips, and Subs.
Select "TTS Settings." TTS should now be operational.
You can modify the volume, minimum donation amounts, and more at this
point.
When you're finished, copy the overlay URL.
Paste the overlay as a browser source in your preferred streaming software.
Setting Up Twitch Text-to-Speech Filters
Anyone can hide behind a Twitch account and abuse TTS. They can make undesirable
comments that include inappropriate language and blatant self-promotion.
Although it's entirely up to you if you allow such behavior, you should
consider your audience as a whole. Can inflammatory comments push away
your viewers? How does that behavior reflect on you? You can use Streamlabs
and StreamElements to set up a profanity and spam filter. In just a few
minutes, you can ensure no one abuses TTS.
Set up the Profanity Filter on Streamlabs
Go to your Streamlabs Desktop account.
Select "Profanity Filter."
Customize the settings to your liking.
You can also block other words by inserting them into the "Custom Bad
Word" menu. Once you've added what you want, select "Blacklist." Make sure
to save your settings. No one should hear the blocked words from your stream's
chat.
Set up the Spam Filter on Streamlabs
Sign in to your Streamlabs account.
Select the "Essentials" tab.
Locate "Alert Box" in the sidebar.
Select "Text-to-Speech."
You can adjust your spam filters here.
Set up the Profanity and Spam Filter on StreamElements
Sign in to your StreamElements account.
Click "Chatbot."
Select "Spam Filters."
You can create any chat filters you want here.
Setting Up TTS with Twitch Channel Points
You can allow your viewers to redeem channel points to have their chat
messages read out loud. All it takes is a few steps.
Sign in to your Twitch account.
From your dashboard, select "View Rewards."
Select "Channel Points."
Create a new custom reward by clicking on it.
You customize the price, icons, etc.
Save the settings.
Now sign in to whatever platform you used to enable TTS (Streamlabs or
StreamElements).
On that platform's dashboard, you should see a list of channel point rewards
you've enabled.
Choose the one you just created.
Select "Edit."
Select "Text to Speech."
Copy the link.
Add a new browser source to your streaming software.
Paste the link into the source.
Conclusion
Enabling text-to-speech on Twitch can take a few minutes but the rewards
can last for much longer. Your channel can stand out from all the other
Twitch channels that don't provide TTS to their viewers. Although Maestra can
not convert text to speech on Twitch, we offer cost-effective speech-to-text and
text-to-speech solutions including video dubbing.
If you download your Twitch streams and edit them into bite-sized videos,
you can use our software to add voice overs in dozens of languages. Improving
their accessibility can help you reach a wider audience.
Request a free demo when
you're ready to step up your game!
Rashida Beal is an ambitious writer who creates detailed articles through diligent research to inform audiences around the world on the latest accessibility and localization news.
