Aar318's Live Chat TTS

Text-to-Speech for Twitch, Kick, and YouTube Live chat with voice controls, message filters, and per-user rules.

**🔊 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 (v1.74.0.2)** - **Bug Fix:** Recover unexpected narration pauses while preserving intentional Pause, Stop, and Skip actions. - **Bug Fix:** Keep queued speech moving while typing in Settings, preserve zero-volume mute, and release stalled playback after voice errors. - **Bug Fix:** Prevent outdated reader playback callbacks from skipping passages or changing a newer narration session. - **Bug Fix:** Include missing channel profiles and per-user rules when merging settings backups. - **Bug Fix:** Open the On-Demand Reader from the toolbar menu on any website. **⭐ 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. - **Reading Progress:** Optionally retain the last document and passage locally, with estimated total and remaining narration time that adapts to completed passages. - **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 reader resume preferences and bookmarks (document text excluded), 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. **🔐 Permissions & Privacy** - **Storage:** Saves TTS state, voice settings, rate, pitch, mappings, channel profiles and enabled states, custom command patterns, per-user rules, bot preferences, filters, anti-spam and priority settings, appearance, injected-control visibility, and recent-username autocomplete data. - **Context Menus:** Adds user-invoked commands to toggle TTS, open settings, stop speech, speak selected text, and open support links. - **Host Permissions:** Limited to supported Twitch, Kick, and YouTube pages so the extension can observe active live chat and add its controls. - **TTS:** Speaks queued chat and status announcements through the built-in extension speech service, independently from the stream's own audio state. - **Local Processing:** Chat is processed locally and spoken through browser/operating-system speech services. No external text-to-speech service receives chat text. - **User-Selected Files:** The On-Demand Reader reads only files explicitly chosen through its file picker. When reading resume is enabled, the most recent extracted document and passage are retained in extension-local IndexedDB so the reader can reopen it; disabling resume or pressing Clear removes that saved document. Nothing is transmitted. Scanned documents may require OCR, while DRM-protected e-books are not supported. - **Local Storage Only:** Chat message text is not stored. Username autocomplete and anti-spam history are capped, pruned, and used only for local extension behavior. - **No Tracking:** No analytics, advertising tracking, or external account is required. **ℹ️ Notes** - Chat reading supports Twitch, Kick, and active YouTube Live pages; the On-Demand Reader can be opened from any page. YouTube begins with newly arriving messages instead of reading the visible backlog. - Available voices and speech behavior depend on the browser and operating system. - Privacy policy: https://gist.github.com/aar318/9d4fc167a12546f162bcef3b91322aad