Aar318's Live Chat TTS

text to speech, tts, twitch, kick, narration

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**🔊 Aar318's Live Chat TTS: Customizable Live Chat Text-to-Speech** Listen to Twitch, Kick, and YouTube Live chat while you watch. Live Chat TTS reads newly arriving messages aloud with your browser's built-in speech voices and gives you direct control over voice, volume, rate, pitch, usernames, bots, message lengths, queue behavior, and per-user or per-channel rules. **🚀 Getting Started** 1. Install the extension, then refresh an open Twitch, Kick, or active YouTube Live page. 2. Left-click the injected **TTS** control or extension icon to enable chat reading. 3. Left-click **Queue** for pause, skip, replay, clear, volume, and current/next-message controls. 4. Right-click either injected button to open Settings, then choose a voice and adjust volume, rate, pitch, filters, and rules. 5. Use voice preview to hear “This is testing Aar318's Live Chat TTS.” New installations start disabled until you turn TTS on. **✨ New Features (v1.74.0.1)** - **Unified Split Control:** TTS and Queue now stay attached as one fixed-width horizontal control across reinjection, navigation, responsive layouts, and visibility changes. - **Strict New-Message Startup:** Enabling TTS or reopening an already-enabled channel records the existing chat as backlog before observation begins, so only genuinely new arrivals are announced. - **Safer Speech Recovery:** Added queue watchdog and interruption safeguards that advance past abandoned speech without replaying an already-started message. - **Reliable State Announcements:** Every explicit TTS enable or disable action now supersedes stale preview/audio state and announces promptly. - **Faster New-Message Pickup:** A lightweight fallback scan complements live DOM observation so site rendering changes cannot leave several new messages waiting before speech begins. - **Cleaner Advanced Controls:** Rules, filters, profiles, patterns, and backup actions use compact content-sized buttons instead of large full-width blocks. - **Independent Extension Speech:** Chrome narration and enable/disable announcements now use the browser's extension TTS service, so muting the stream or typing in chat does not cancel the spoken queue. - **Typing-Safe Recovery:** Unexpected browser cancellations resume from the last reported word, or retry once from the beginning if the engine stopped before reporting progress. Only explicit Stop, Skip, or disabling TTS intentionally clears speech. - **Condensed Support Events:** Rapid cheer bursts are combined into one concise total, and community gift events announce the batch without reading every individual recipient. - **On-Demand Reader:** Paste text or open a wide variety of standard documents, e-books, and text files in a dedicated reader with one-click start, passage navigation, pause, resume, and stop controls. - **Shared Reader Voice:** The On-Demand Reader loads the main Live Chat TTS voice, rate, pitch, and volume, saves reader changes back to those settings, and includes the same spoken voice preview. - **Automatic Reading Resume:** The last selected or pasted document and its exact passage are retained locally by default, then restored automatically the next time the reader opens. This behavior can be disabled inside the reader. - **Updated Settings Backup:** Reader resume preference and bounded bookmark metadata are covered by settings export/import, while document and e-book text is deliberately excluded from backup files. - **Adaptive Reading-Time Estimate:** Shows word count, estimated total narration time, and remaining time as soon as text is pasted or opened. The estimate starts from the selected speech rate and recalibrates from completed passages to better match the active voice. **⭐ Key Features** - **Real-Time Chat Reading:** Watches Twitch, Kick, and active YouTube Live chat and queues newly arriving messages for speech. - **Browser Voice Controls:** Choose an installed browser or operating-system voice and customize volume, speech rate, and pitch. - **Compact Queue Controller:** Pause/resume, skip, replay, clear, change volume, and see current, next, and waiting speech without opening the full settings panel. - **One-Click Preview:** Test the selected voice, volume, rate, and pitch with coordinated playback across supported tabs. - **Easy Controls:** Toggle TTS from the page or extension icon; use right-click menus to open settings, stop speech immediately, speak selected text, or access support links. - **Document and E-book Narration:** Open the responsive On-Demand Reader from Settings or the extension right-click menu. User-selected documents and e-books are processed locally and never uploaded. - **Speak Selected Text:** Select text on a supported streaming page, right-click it, and choose **Speak selected text**. - **Subscriptions and Gifts:** Announces supported subscriptions, resubscriptions, Prime/Tier plans, individual gifts, community gifts, memberships, raids, donation-style notices, and optional first-time chat notices with duplicate protection. - **Priority Rules:** Important events, highlighted or paid messages, favorites, and selected users can move ahead of ordinary chat. - **Per-Channel Profiles and State:** Restore distinct voices, speech controls, pronunciation, filters, anti-spam settings, priorities, user rules, and remembered enabled state for each channel. - **Per-User Rules:** Prioritize, mute, rename, or assign custom voice, rate, and pitch settings to individual chatters. Priority messages bypass ordinary length filters. - **Custom Name Pronunciations:** Use configuration files or simple `username:value` entries, with recent-username autocomplete, Tab completion, and built-in smart pronunciation cleanup. - **Bot and Command Controls:** Common bots are excluded by default; an optional allowlist and user-created command-output patterns can announce useful bot results without speaking the bot name or emoji. - **Message and Spam Cleanup:** Compress repeated emoji, clarify commands and mentions, condense recognized bot results, apply optional length limits, and collapse highly similar copy-paste floods. - **Queue and Duplicate Protection:** Caps the queue and recent-message history, coordinates duplicate live-chat tabs, prevents re-rendered/backlog messages from replaying, retries voice startup, and resumes genuine interruptions near the last completed word. - **Settings Backup:** Export or import complete settings with merge or overwrite options for preferences, profiles, channel states, custom command patterns, mappings, bots, filters, anti-spam, priorities, and per-user rules. - **Responsive Interface:** Includes desktop and touch-friendly controls, right-side mobile safe-area placement, scrollable settings, platform-specific colors, and optional seasonal themes. - **Optional On-Page Controls:** Hide injected controls while retaining toolbar and context-menu commands.