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Updates, announcements, and development notes

New: Automated Chat Timers with AI Support

Keep your chat engaged with automated timed messages. Broadcast standard announcements, or use AI prompts to generate fresh, unique messages on an interval.

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Chat Overlay Update: Ultimate Color Customization & Smoother Animations

Take total control of your chat overlay's aesthetic with fully customizable colors for usernames, messages, timestamps, and pronoun badges. Plus, enjoy buttery-smooth new animations that respect your system's motion settings.

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New: YouTube Live Chat TTS Support for Multi-Streamers

WildcatTTS now natively supports reading YouTube Live chat aloud, perfect for broadcasters multistreaming to Twitch and YouTube simultaneously.

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New: Native YouTube Chat Integration

The Chat Overlay now natively supports YouTube Live — combine Twitch and YouTube chat into a single unified widget, with support for Unlisted streams.

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Chat Overlay: New Home & Full Google Fonts Support

The Wildcat Chat Overlay has moved to wildcat.chat, and you can now pick any font from the Google Fonts catalog — over 1,900 options — including AI-generated themes that choose the perfect font for your vibe.

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WildcatTTS: Emote Description Cache & Management

Emote descriptions are now permanently cached and moderators can view, regenerate, or manually set descriptions with the new !tts emote command.

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TTS Update: Speech 2.8 Turbo + Interjection Tags

WildcatTTS now uses Speech 2.8 Turbo for faster, more natural text-to-speech. Plus, you can add interjection tags like (laughs), (sighs), and more for lifelike delivery.

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New: Daily Check-In with Channel Points

Viewers can now check in daily using a Channel Point Reward. Track streaks, use response variables, or let AI generate a unique message for every check-in.

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New: AI-Powered Custom Commands

Custom commands can now use AI to generate a unique response every time. Create fun, dynamic interactions with a single prompt.

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Welcome to the Wildcat Blog

Introducing the Wildcat.chat blog — a place for platform updates, feature announcements, and development notes.

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New WildcatSage Feature: Custom Commands

WildcatSage now supports custom commands. Create your own `!commands` with dynamic responses.

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New WildcatTTS Feature: Banned Words & Phrases

You can now configure a list of banned words and phrases for WildcatTTS. Any chat message containing a banned word or phrase will be silently skipped by TTS — filtered out.

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New WildcatTTS Feature: Emote Descriptions

WildcatTTS can now describe what emotes look like instead of reading out the emote name. This makes emote-heavy messages much more accessible and natural to listen to.

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Bug Fix: WildcatSage Settings Persistence

Fixed issues causing dashboard settings to reset unexpectedly, specifically affecting ad break notifications and auto-chat/ad notification conflicts.

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Big news: ChatVibes is now WildcatTTS

ChatVibes has officially rebranded to WildcatTTS. This update gives the TTS service a clearer identity and a cleaner dashboard.

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More news: Sage rebranding update

My knowledge bot has a new name. ChatSageBot is now WildcatSage.

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Update: Better cheer handling & controls

I've improved how the bot handles Cheer events to squash some bugs and give you more control, including smarter cheer reading and a new 'Announce Cheers' toggle.

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New Feature: Voice Volume & Calibration

I’ve rolled out an update to the ChatVibes Dashboard that gives you direct control over voice volume and per-voice volume calibration.

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TTS Update: Speech 2.6 Turbo

I've migrated the ChatVibes Text-to-Speech engine to Speech 2.6 Turbo (MiniMax via 302.ai). This model succeeds Speech-02 and provides improvements in latency, prosody, and multilingual handling.

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New Feature: VIP-Only TTS Mode!

You can now restrict Text-to-Speech to VIPs (plus Mods & Broadcaster)! This is the perfect middle ground when 'Everyone' is too chaotic but 'Mods Only' is a bit too quiet.

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