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Text to Speech

Text-to-speech (TTS) reads viewer messages aloud during your stream. DomDimaBot supports two TTS providers with different voice qualities, costs, and capabilities.

Piper is a local neural voice engine running on the DomDimaBot server. It is available on all plan tiers and uses AI credits.

AI Credit cost: 1 credit per 50 characters

Voices available:

  • English (US) — en_US-ryan-medium
  • Spanish (Mexico) — es_MX-ald-medium

Characteristics:

  • Fast synthesis (local, no API calls)
  • No expressive/emotion tags
  • No premium AI features
  • Available to all users regardless of plan tier

Fish Audio provides cloned character voices. It is available on all plan tiers and uses AI credits.

Voices available:

  • Gojo, Rias Gremory, Carlos Bodoque, Toji Fushiguro

Characteristics:

  • Cloned character voices
  • Available through $(tts.fish ...) and $(tts.clone ...)
  • Also usable as the channel default engine

ProviderAI Credits
Piper1 per 50 characters
Fish AudioUses AI credits
PlanMonthly Credits
Free25,000
Premium125,000
Pro500,000

Permission: Everyone

Usage: !s <message>

Makes DomDimaBot read your message aloud using the channel’s default TTS provider and voice settings.

Example:

!s Hello chat, welcome to the stream

In custom commands and the AST system, use these functions for fine-grained control:

FunctionProviderNotes
$(tts ...)Default providerUses channel’s default TTS engine
$(tts.speak ...)Piper onlyForces the local Piper voice
$(tts.ai ...)Default providerSame as $(tts ...)
$(tts.clone ...)Fish AudioCloned voice TTS
$(tts.fish ...)Fish AudioSame as $(tts.clone ...)

Examples:

$(tts.speak Hello from Piper)
$(tts.fish gojo Hello from Fish Audio)

Configure TTS in your dashboard under Modules → Text to Speech:

  • Enable/disable channel TTS
  • Default provider selection (Piper or Fish Audio)
  • Voice selection per language or cloned voice
  • Message filters — skip emotes, replace links, normalize whitespace, max length
  • Queue settings — maximum pending TTS items