Tip alerts
What plays on stream when someone tips - and where each part of it is configured.
When a tip lands, your overlay pops the alert - name, amount, message - plays your alert sound, then reads the message out with TTS. The pieces are configured in three places, on purpose, so here’s the map:
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| The look - style, animation, colours, font, position | The Alert box widget in the overlay editor |
| The voice - which one, speed, pitch, what gets read | The Alert box widget’s Voice section, per overlay (see TTS) |
| The chat announcement - bot message when someone tips | The Chat toggle on the tip row of the Alerts page |
| What’s allowed through - filtered words, blocked donors | Filter and Bans |
The flow of a tip alert
Tips queue up - alerts never talk over each other. If TTS is paused (from Controls), tips stack in the queue until you resume. You can skip whatever’s playing, and replay past tips from the TTS history or with the bot’s !tts replay command.
An alert box without tips
The Tip row under Alert events on the Alert box widget has an Alert toggle like every other row. Turn it off and that overlay stops playing tips altogether - it doesn’t read them, doesn’t take them off the queue, and shows follows, subs, cheers, raids and the rest as before. Tips then wait for whatever does play them: another overlay whose alert box has tips on, or your own integration on the developer API. Because such a box never touches the queue, it can sit alongside the overlay that does.
Tips in AI voices
When a tip is read in AI voices, the alert box shows the whole message at once, so viewers can read ahead, with each voice’s part marked by its photo and name. The part being spoken is lit and the rest dimmed, moving along as each voice takes its turn. Photos are sized to the text, so the message takes the same lines it would on any tip - an alert box that fits your tips fits these too.
You can switch it to Who’s speaking, which shows one voice’s part at a time instead.
The highlight follows timings recorded when the voices were made. Tips without them - ones made before this feature, or with TTS switched off - show the whole message with every voice lit, in either layout.
Change it on the Alert box widget in the overlay editor, under AI voice tips:
- Whole message (the default) or Who’s speaking.
- Light up who’s speaking (whole message only) - dims the parts that aren’t being spoken.
- Voice photo, and its shape: rounded, circle or square.
- Voice name, in the tip amount colour or one you pick. Names take room in the line, so on a whole message a long tip may wrap sooner - turn them off if it gets tight.
- Delivery tags - shows directions like whispering or laughing where the donor put them. Off by default.
Tips in the standard voice look exactly the same as before.
The chat announcement
If you want TipPageBot to post in chat when someone tips, flip the Chat toggle on the Tip row of the Alerts page. The bot needs to be enabled for messages to send.