twitch

Through 2020, I watched hundreds of hours of twitch streams from around the world. I would guess it ranks top for total hours from a audio/video source, followed roughly by youtube, soundcloud, twitter, netflix, disney+, hbo max, hotel cable (TCM), sling, other.

Channel Recommendations

• https://www.twitch.tv/zep_aki – Tokyo flânerie
• https://www.twitch.tv/grubtruckers – Foodtruck ops in id, usa
• https://www.twitch.tv/jaroslavmantv – Streetcar driver in cz
• https://www.twitch.tv/proem__ – analog sounds
• https://nobody.live/ – Random streams with 0 viewers

Tech Notes

The notes below are exploring how to add text to speech for all chat messages for no-hands mobile use (e.g. twitch/zep_aki on a bike).

Developers

• docs
• docs/extensions
  • An iframe / React app that sits on top of profile or stream content.
• docs/irc
  • tmi.js is a chatbot npm package based on an irc bridge
  • Forum

3rd Party Services

• Streamlabs – assistant, Cloudbot ,mobile apps, etc.
• Nightbot – moderation
• deepbot – assistant, …
• AWS Lumberyard – Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine … designed for integration with Twitch.

Extensions

There is an obvious gap in all-chat text-to-speech Extensions. All of the existing options seem to require a bit donation to function. This looks likely related to the related Moderation policy — Extensions must not allow end users to submit or publish user content unless the end user has granted the Extension access to their Twitch ID.

• Say It Live – tts for bits via obs
• Megaphone – tts for bits
• Blerp – Sound commands as a SaaS
• TwitchAudio – Song identifier service
• Closed Captions – Exists for streamer, maybe redundant twitch features.
• Voice commands for streamer? (e.g. Siri, Alexa, clap on clap off)

Chatbot

• websockets
  • 2020 – Twitch official tmi.js – JavaScript node npm
  • 2020 – Chatbot with OBS overlay – PHP Minicli
  • 2019 – twitch-play-sound – TypeScript
  • 2016 – FoxBot – Python and websockets
    • Uses this? http://tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/chatters/chatters
• irc via irssi
  • Rumors to “use websockets irc bridge is deprecated”.
  • Did not work 2020-11-19
    • “Cannot authenticate via SASL (The server did not offer SASL)”
  • Arch notes on authenticating on irc with SASL — Did not work.
• See Also
  • discord.js / topics / voice

Stream Setup Examples

• sorskoot – OBS – Live-coding with complex audio