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hello and welcome i'm machine dana i hope you're doing really really well and having a great day in
this video we're going to be talking about text to speech okay so this is well it's text to speech so
thanks to you get the picture if you don't know what text-to-speech is basically
typing text turns it into speech so you can hear it instead of having to look
okay it's good for people that are ignorant or maybe people just want to troll
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there's a number of different ways you can add text to speech on your stream okay and that goes
whether you're twitch or youtube gaming or facebook gaming lego is the facebook sponsor
you can add it to things like donations bits even like subscription messages when people
resubscribe or subscribe for the first time to your channel there are extensions available
and they're also like third-party tools available you're probably wondering like what's the point
in having text-to-speech on your channel well some people like it because it's funny
some people like it because it's entertaining so people will actually pay for the privilege
of being able to have a text-to-speech on your channel because they just find it funny
and and whatever it does also have some practical things as well so if you want to have
text-to-speech on all of your text as in any chat text that comes through that means that
you're able to do virtual reality type streams so it's really really useful for that there are other
applications as well if you're running one monitor then it's pretty useful for things like that too
so be able to hear the chat i've yet to see many twitch streamers have text-to-speech on like all
of their chat unless they've been a virtual reality beamer but i don't know maybe there's
an application maybe there's blind streamers out there there probably is uh that use it and find it
very very useful so there you go but nonetheless it's also a form of revenue if you've got it as
like an incentivized paid service on your stream and also it rewards people if you're using it for
bits or subscriptions and things like that so it's well worth doing but there are loads of different
ways to do it in this video i'm going to run through four or five different ways to do it if
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machine dana i think we're ready to do this let's go
okay so the first thing i'm going to go through is the extension that you can get on your twitch
channel i think this is also available or something similar for youtube as well but
don't quote me on that and don't ask me questions about it because i don't know as much about the
youtube gaming one okay so sorry i'm sorry if you do youtube gaming and i can't answer your
questions so within your stream manager so that's your username forward slash stream manager you can
go to extensions here there are loads of different types of extensions you can get that enable
extra speech and they all have different like good things and bad things about them i've used
one called say it live now with say it live let's just go to the discovery do a search
for say it live and there it is you have to click the install button and that will install it and
you can configure it by pressing the the cog button here you do need to make sure that it's
actually in the activated column rather than just the installed column otherwise it won't actually
work on your channel and what this does in your about section this then creates this panel called
basically say it live okay so people then can say things like here like machine dana is incredible
uh they can they can send it for an amount and you can define what that amount of bits is so they're
paying bits to have text-to-speech on your channel and then you can add this as a browser source and
i'll show you that briefly in a second there is a moderation queue so your moderators are
able to moderate this they're able to look at this and say yes i approve this message or not
and also it's like a leaderboard as well for people that have used it i'll be honest i've
not found this one to be used a great deal on a month by month basis on my channel but i've
left it there anyway just in case somebody new comes on and that's just the convenient
way for them to add text to speech on the channel let's just go into the config for
this briefly you will have to authorize your channel to this so you'll have to allow twitch
to be used on say it live so you may have to log in or just click the authorize button and then
you get a browser source here which you can just copy can customize this with the amount of bits to
trigger the text to speech and you can even choose different voices i've gone for brian um
update information help and support you can join the discord if you've got any
specific questions for this particular community machine daynam is incredible
okay so when you want to add this as a browser source on your streamlabs obs or your obs studio
or xsplit or whatever click the plus icon on your sources and select browser source click
add source we want to add a new browser source we can call it tts extension add the source it'll put
the placeholder there we're pasting in the browser source click done on that and that will work there
now it does come up it's quite small so you might want to just like make it a lot larger like that
ryan is apparently a doggo that goes into people's streams and tells people all about his voice
wonderful
there you go that's like a twitch panel say it live version of text to speech
i'm now going to get into some alert box text to speech as well now i've already
done a more detailed video about alert box and how to set it up so i'm not going to
go into the ins and outs of how to set up alert box i will link it in the description
alert box is from streamlabs online you have to go into streamlabs.com set up an account
you can log in with your twitch credentials or your youtube credentials i think your facebook
gaming credentials as well click on a workbox or you can search for it in the search bar and
this is the widget and it's a similar thing we can copy the url and add it as a browser source
all the details are in the video but specifically to text to speech one thing to quickly note here
they are discontinuing version two i'm going to show it now in version two but when i now click
off version two they're rolling in whatever yeah whatever so on version two you do have
global settings here but the global settings for text-to-speech are not here so what you need to do
is go into the specific types of events where you want to allow text to speech hopefully that makes
good sense now some things it makes sense to have text-to-speech for and other things it doesn't
like when someone follows you there's no option on twitch or anywhere to say a message blah blah blah
blah and i'm following you and actually that would be a pretty good functionality for twitch to add
like that's just not something that exists at the moment so clearly you cannot add text to speech
anywhere or a twitch follow however for donations there is an area on the let's say for example the
streamlabs website where you can donate and you can add a message with that therefore
on the donation event type under donation you can enable the text-to-speech option by clicking this
here let me just move my camera out of the way oh transitions ooh check the link in the description
panel to do transitions oh so here you can set like first of all you can enable it for donations
you can set the text-to-speech minimum amount to read and this is in i think it's in dollars
i think that's one dollar rather than one cent you can choose the voice and put spam security
and even set the volume of it and you can also say whether or not the text-to-speech includes
the message template the message template is this thing here name has just tipped amount but bear
in mind alert boxing itself also gives an alert on the screen with like a gif and a sound effect
whatever else you've chosen to be on the workbox and again that's covered in the video it's not on
merch it's not on cloud bot redemptions if you use loyalty store again check the link in the
description for that prime gifted subscription it's not on here either twitch follows as i've
mentioned it's not going to be on here because this just doesn't make sense for it to be on here
twitch subs when someone subscribes to you they can basically leave you like some sort of stupid
trolly spammy or thank you genuine message so on the twitch sub there is a text-to-speech option
to enable it hosting it doesn't make sense to have text-to-speech so it's not there which bits
this is probably the most common used version so this is where you would like type the chair like
let's say for example 100 and then you would do something really annoying like machine dana sucks
but then the great thing about this is people can spam it like that and then it just comes through
and through and through and through so the viewer is getting like a level of stupidity and troll
and entertainment you're having to pull with the trolling but you're also getting money for that
so it's kind of like it's okay this works pretty well because a lot of people on twitch know about
this so quite often people will naturally just put some text after their donation just because
that's why not right why not it does work pretty well on twitch bits and again raiding it doesn't
kind of make sense for extra speech to be on raids but so far we've added extensions
text to speech and we've added donation text to speak we've been able to add bits text to speech
and i think was the one more as well subscriber text to speech the final one is adding just text
to speech for everything like literally your whole chat and there's a lot of options for this as well
for this i'm going to go to speechchat.com there's a lot of different versions of these
types of text-to-speech to have this one's very popular it's very well known it's pretty trusted
it works pretty well when you first log in here you will be asked to connect a google drive
to this so when i did this it said like loads of different google accounts and which one i wanted
to connect to that all it is is just to enable the function to work so there's not actually a lot of
options to that it's purely just a google function because it uses google extra speech service and
authorizing that and it's just a little pop-up when you log in with it whichever account you
want to authorize it on then you want to connect it with mixer oh my god that's a throwback rest
in peace mixer so then you can choose whether you want it to be on both youtube and twitch if
you're doing multi streaming when you toggle this on it will ask you to authorize as well same thing
so it wants to update your channels titles games and all that we'll click authorize on that we'll
see the toggle will move to the right hand side here i'll just move my camera again transitions
and what happens here is we're able to now connect twitch now when i go on to let me just push this
to the left push this to the right so what we've got here is my twitch channel here on the text to
speech for all text i can now send a message here i love you i love you there you go it does appear
in the chat now the one thing this does need to be open if i get rid of this and type it again
it don't work and of course if you want to disconnect it you can easily do that as well
just by toggling both of these off connection to your google drive and also the connection
to twitch there are some nice options here just to look at as well so and with the stream chart
and the control panel there's all kinds of general voice chat events and user group
options some of the key ones if you hover over this it says available keywords our username and
message i think by default this says his username said and then what their actual messages which
is obviously pretty useful if you're doing vr but if you're doing some sort of event
or something like that or you just want to cue the different chats then maybe you don't want
the username there but there's some controls there which is pretty good there's all kinds
of other options here like filters and keyword filters and things like that but clearly this
is very useful if you're doing vr or if you just want to have text-to-speech on your channel say
for example your eyesight isn't that great i don't know it's quite a nice tool it works really well
machine dana said so there you have it how to add different tts text to speech to your streaming
channel don't forget to like the vid and subscribe until next time have a great day see you later