Speaker.bot

Getting some things out before TwitchCon this weekend, so here is a maintenance release for Speaker.bot!

Version 0.1.7 is now available.

Updates

• Update how data files are saved to try and limit corruption
• Update all libraries
• Tweaks to startup handling

Fixes

• Fix typos (yes, this is almost always fixed at the top of the list)
• Fix Twitch Hype Train data being incorrect
• Fix Twemoji handling, there were some cases where images were not being set correctly

Welcome to the first release of 2026!

I have upgraded my code signing certificate from a regular certificate to an EV certificate. Hopefully this provides more trust within Windows and less false positives.

✨ What's New

• Start using 2 Twitch EventSub events, that deal with business based logic for subscriptions to keep internal subscription data current while connected
• Add support for 7TV Zero Width emotes
• Add support for Chat Message events from Twitch EventSub
• Move Twitch Chat Messages and Cheers to use Twitch EventSub
• Disable Twitch Chat Client
• Add setting to change built-in !tts command

🛠️ Improvements & Updates

• Tweaks to Twitch EventSub Connection, and handling for connections going stale or dying
• Tweak timeout values for obtaining refresh tokens
• Tweaks to Twitch EventSub subscriptions
• General tweaks to some replacement data
• Tweaks to ElevenLabs voice loading, better handling of model data
• General cleanup
• Update tts.monster to support Custom Voices
• Better handling of Twitch Shared Chat events

🐛 Fixes

• Fix potential crash in Streamlabs Client, when an event has no data
• Fix potential crash in Twitch Service when retrieving Cheermotes and User Emotes
• Fix Twitch Resub event not speaking correctly or at all
• Fix potential crash when banning a user on Twitch
• Fix Twemoji parsing, seems there was an error in the handling that was only just surfacing
• Fix a crash related to Twitch Chat reply messages that begin with an emote
• Fix a crash when parsing out 3rd party emotes and not cleaning up empty fragments properly
• Fix Twemoji not correctly being recognized when Allow First Emote is enabled

New Features

• Add new option to Ignore Twitch Shared Chat Messages
• Add option to enable/disable Emote Services for Twitch, by default, they're all enabled
• Update Streamlabs Website integration to use OAuth

Updates

• Add support for ElevenLabs legacy voices
• Update some internal libraries
• Udpate how Twitch Gift Bombs/Gift Subs are handled internally
• Update how Twemoji handles parsing of emoji, to account for Unicode lengths
• Move Twitch Whispers to EventSub
• Move Twitch Sub, ReSub, Gift Sub and Community Gifts
• Remove some unused events
• Update 3rd party libraries (Amazon Polly, Google Cloud Text to Speech, Microsoft Cognitive Services)

Fixes

• VoiceGate would not un-pause if there was no input level (such as when muting the microphone)
• Fix handling of Google voices that do not support SSML
• Fix potential crash related to ElevenLabs.io, errors should be logged now
• Numerous fixes in Twitch libraries
• Fix 7TV duplicate message handling
• Fix handling of emotes in Twitch Messages when Unicode emotes exist
• Fix loading of Twitch VIP users on connection for non-affiliate users
• Fix cleanup when shutting down Twitch Service

Details

New Features

• Add new scopes for Twitch Broadcaster account
• Load Twitch Broadcaster's available emotes on login
• Add VoiceGate feature
• Add Delete menu item to a User's context menu
• Add new option to ignore Twemoji Emotes
• Add VoiceGate profiles

Updates

• Updated/added icons
• Tweaks and improvements to startup routines
• Update external libraries
• Rename and update some libraries
• Update Twemoji to 15.1.0
• Better handling of Twitch Chat for high volume channels
• Performance tweaks surrounding Twitch Chat handling
• Remove support for Twitch Hype Chats

Fixes

• Handle possible crash in parsing websocket subscribe messages
• Fix parsing of ElevenLabs default data
• Fix rate limit related to Twitch Ban list retreival, its not longer done
• Fix certain events not being broadcast to WebSocket correctly
• Don't require a past voice to be selected to clear a user's past voices
• Fix Global URL Filter setting not loading/saving correctly
• UberDuck voices should mostly work again

Details

New Features

• Add a check to Google and Watson configus for the existence of a credential file, instead of crashing
• Expand Max Words setting to be Max Words, or Max Characters
• Add some new Websocket methods (used by Streamer.bot 0.2.2-alpha.22)

Updates

• Misc code cleanup
• Update tts.monster configuration to take the overlay url
• Update Amazon Polly and Microsoft Cognitive Service libraries

Fixes

• Fix an older config upgrade issue related to instance id
• Fix Websocket Service UI not updating correctly when Websocket Server is configured to auto-start
• Fix re-adding engines not showing up in engine list
• Fix crash related to 7TV, and not being able to connect to event services ::

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

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

Details

New Features

• Add minimize to tray option
• Add confirmation on close option

Updates

• Update auth icon/titles
• Twitch EventSub connection URL has been updated
• Twitch EventSub Follow event has been updated to version 2
• Updates to internal libraries
• Updates to external speech engine libraries
• Refresh voices after initial initialization of speech engines
• Twitch Raid now uses EventSub

Fixes

• Misc internal fixes
• Tweaks to Twitch EventSub connection
• Tweaks to how Twitch retry timers were handled
• Tweaks to TTS Monster
• Windows Tray Icon tooltip has a hard limit of 128 characters, gracefully handle this

Details

The Twitch Follow EventSub is now updated to v2, so it will once again connect properly.