How to get your very own text to speech chat room reader for Twitch.tv!
First step is to download mIRC and get it all setup for your channel. Instructions on how to get mIRC working with twitch can be found in a previous post.Next inside the mIRC client there is a section for speech under sounds.
- Go to Tools, then options ( shortcut key is alt-o )
- Then under Sound has a speech section, click on that.
- Press Enable speech
- Once that is on, anything in chat should be read back by the tts.
Other options to consider when using the text to speech on twitch.tv.
In the same speech options screen, there is a button called Lexicon. You can use lexicon to filter words to prevent people from trolling the tts. I personally use it to counter troll, so when people type a bad word, instead of saying the bad word it says something funny.
Other things you can also do to prevent spam is to use the ignore command inside mIRC. If someone posted up a wall of text spam, just go back to the Enable Speech and uncheck it, it will stop the tts, then you can just restart it back up.
Keep in mind, if you plan to use TTS alot, you should consider making a different twitch account for the mIRC and not use your own main twitch username so you can ignore the tts user and not yourself.
Thanks for reading, if you have any questions or comments fill free to address them here in the comments section!
