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title: TTS
description: The voice that reads tips on stream - queue, history, voice settings, and AI voices.
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The **TTS** page runs everything about the voice on your stream: the queue of messages waiting to play, the history of what's played, and the voice itself.

## Queue and history

The **Queue** panel shows what's waiting, in order. The **History** panel shows what's already played, with a replay button - great for "wait, what did that say?" moments. Replayed tips show a gold "(Replay)" badge on the overlay so chat knows it's a rerun.

## Voice settings

These settings shape the audio that gets generated for every tip:

- **TTS enabled** - the master switch for generating tip audio.
- **Language** - the voice, e.g. English (UK).
- **Read donor names / amounts / messages** - three toggles for what gets spoken. Turn amounts off if you don't want numbers read out.
- **Preview** - plays a sample so you can tune it without firing test alerts.

Playback lives with each overlay: the per-overlay TTS toggle, volume, and the tip alert sound (including uploading and picking sound files) are all in the [overlay editor](/overlay/edit-your-overlay), so two overlays can behave differently.

Viewers get a **Preview TTS** button on your tip page too, so they hear exactly how their message will sound before paying. Same voice, same settings.

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## AI voices (closed beta)

Accounts in the AI voices beta get an extra **AI voices** panel on the TTS page. When it's on, viewers can have their tip read out in AI voices instead of the standard one - and they can write a **script**, where different lines of the message are spoken by different voices, played back-to-back as one clip.

On the tip page, viewers see a "Read it in AI voices" button under the message box. It opens a script editor: each line has a voice attached, tapping the voice name opens a picker with a playable sample for every voice, and pressing Enter starts the next line for a back-and-forth.

Your controls in the panel:

- **Offer AI voices to donors** - the master switch.
- **Mode** - *Donors can choose* keeps the standard voice as the default, with AI voices as an option. *All TTS uses AI voices* removes the standard voice entirely: every tip message is AI-voiced.
- **Minimum tip for AI voices** - set it equal to your minimum tip for no extra requirement, or higher to make AI voices a premium that viewers unlock by tipping more.
- **Voices** - pick which voices viewers can choose from, with a play button to sample each one. Everything's enabled by default.
- **Character budget** - AI generation spends characters from a monthly allowance. The meter shows what's left; when it runs out, AI voices pause (viewers fall back to the standard voice) until the month rolls over.

A few things to know:

- [Free messages](/viewers/sub-rewards) can use AI voices too - but only while you haven't set a higher minimum tip for them. A free message can't clear a paid gate.
- Your [word filter and AI tip filter](/moderation/word-filter) still apply. If a filter changes the message, the AI audio speaks the *filtered* text - or falls back to the standard voice if it can't.
- AI audio takes a little longer to generate than standard TTS, especially multi-voice scripts. The overlay holds the tip at the front of the queue until its audio is ready rather than playing it in the wrong voice.
- There's no message preview for AI voices - generation is metered - but every voice has a sample clip viewers can play before choosing.
- Automating it? The [developer API](/developer-api#ai-voices-closed-beta) can read the catalog and toggle the feature or individual voices.

AI voices are invite-only while in beta - if the panel isn't on your TTS page, your account isn't flagged in yet.

## Mod control from chat

Your mods don't need dashboard access to run the queue - `!tts skip`, `!tts pause`, `!tts resume`, and `!tts replay` all work from chat once the [bot is enabled](/chat-bot/tippage-bot).