twitch-tts

Twitch Text-to-Speech bot

Compile instructions

1. Download the latest version of Go https://go.dev/dl/
2. Follow the installation instructions for your OS https://go.dev/doc/install.
3. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/judwhite/twitch-tts
4. Go to the new directory cd twitch-tts
5. Compile the binary using go build

Installation

Install gTTS

Run sudo apt install python3-gtts to use your distribution's version of gTTS.

For a more recent version of gTTS, run:

sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip install gTTS

After installing you may need to create a new terminal session for gtts-cli to show up in the PATH.

Install ffmpeg

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Test that the ffplay binary is found.

Create a Twitch Chat OAuth Token

1. The easy way: https://www.twitchapps.com/tmi/
2. export TWITCH_IRC_OAUTH="<your_token>" (add this to ~/.profile and run source ~/.profile)

Running

./twitch-tts --nick=<bot_name> --channel=<#your_channel>

Fork of a previous bot

Fork of https://github.com/judwhite/go-cah Cards Against Humanity IRC/Twitch Bot (2015).

Resources

• Twitch Chat OAuth Password Generator
• Whisper Rate Limiting
• Twitch IRC
• IRC - RFC2812