Speaker.bot v0.1.2

New Features

• Add some more logging during shutdown
• Add new TTS Engine, ElevenLabs.io
• Speech Engines tab has completely changed, and how engines are added and removed
• Add new methods, and tweaks to Websocket Server
• Add Twitch Subscription, Mod, Vip and Banned user information to Twitch Data
• Add a Headless Mode
• Speaker.bot and it's libraries are now digitally signed

Updates

• Tweaks to LiteDB handling
• Tweaks to tts.Monster
• Change how shutdown works from an update
• Rewrite how Text To Speech engines are handled internally, its completely dynamic now, this enables some future features
• Faster initialization on load of enabled speech engines
• Websocket Service tweaks
• Add some more logging during shutdown
• Bad words filter is now case insensitive
• Update Amazon Polly, and Microsoft Azure packages
• Update a handful of packages
• Performance updates to Twitch Chat client
• Stop logging timing for 3rd party emote parsing
• Added ability to have Dialog Prompts timeout after a certain amount of time
• Twitch Authorization error dialog will timeout after 10s
• Speaking Queue and Speaking History have been merged into a Processing Tab

Fixes

• Misc fixes and tweaks throughout
• Fix 7TV emotes not being parsed
• Fixes to shutdown routines
• Fix some threads not being stopped properly
• Fix Twitch EventSub related issues, potential duplicate events
• Fix default config version when running a fresh copy of the alpha
• Fix Usage db upgrade path
• UberDuck works again
• Various fixes that were applied to Streamer.bot have been brought across
• Handle potential issue on Twitch Broadcaster login

Details

Speaker.bot

Starting with this release of Speaker.bot, I can now digitally sign it, and it's accompanying libraries.

What does this mean? I'm hoping less (or no more) false positives and/or AV software nuking the exe before or while its running. Also, building a better level of trust within Windows, as well as you, the end-user.

In order to obtain the certificate used to digitally sign these applications, a legal entity has been setup, and undergone third-party (ssl.com) validation to verify it and the status of the company.

New Engine

With the release of 0.1.2, Speaker.bot now supports a new engine, ElevenLabs.io! Be sure to check them out.

Uber Duck

Uber Duck seems to have undergone some major changes, and sadly, I was not aware of them to keep Speaker.bot up to date. Moving forward, UberDuck no longer has all the community submitted voices.

Speaker.bot still supports what is available at UberDuck.

Headless Mode

You read that right, you can now run Speaker.bot headless, as in no GUI, only a log file.

Consider this mode very very experimental, since there is no GUI initialization anymore.

To run Speaker.bot in headless mode, just add /headless, and to stop it, add /shutdown when running it. Speaker.bot.exe /headlessSpeaker.bot.exe /shutdown

Streamer.bot Integration

Starting with Streamer.bot v0.2.2-alpha.8, there is a tighter integration between the two apps.

Within Streamer.bot, there is a new Speak sub-action, and it has 3 ways it can work.

1. How you're use to with the UDP in a fire and forget fashion
2. Silent option, when selected, this will only process the speech, and, if the setting is enabled in Speaker.bot, write the audio to a file, and will add a %speechFile% argument so you can pass it to a Play Sound sub-action, or other
3. Delay option, the most requested feature, yes, this will delay the sub-action from continuing until the audio has been played by Speaker.bot

Using either the Silent or Delay option also introduces a timeout of 30 seconds, so it does not get stuck, in a future version, this may be configurable (within reason)

Theese sub-actions within Streamer.bot, also add the duration of the speech to its arguments.

Again, at the moment, this new integration is only available in the alpha versions of Streamer.bot