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One big problem I think is this feature that streamers have figured out where you let viewers pay a few bucks of money and then they can use it for text-to-spee

One big problem I think is this feature that streamers have figured out where you let viewers pay a few bucks of money and then they can use it for text-to-speech. I had no idea what that meant. Found this article that explains it: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-set-up-text-to-speech-donations-on-twitch https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-set-up-text-to-speech... "You can set up text-to-speech donations on Twitch through a widget called an 'Alert Box.' With text-to-speech donations enabled, viewers can attach messages to their donations, which will then be read aloud on your stream." It notes: "You can also set up a blacklist of words that the text-to-speech robot won't read."

Mountain_Skies 6y ago
I wonder if the robot understands phonetics. As a rambunctious pre-teen, I figured out how to make the Billy Bob speechbot (not stage performer) at Showbiz Pizza say curse words by using alternative spellings. The tech of the time likely could only combat this by increasing the size of the dictionary of words not to say. Now it should be able to detect such homonyms but did anyone think to set that up.
throwaway189262 6y ago
It should be noted that most streamers have mods (internet janitors) that pre-screen TTS. It ranges from tips to berating to sometimes hilarious jokes. A common TTS would be something like "Go back through the door on the left you missed the best weapon in the game you single celled organism 777777777777777777" . A mixture of helpful, berating, and spam.