TTS Services

TTS Helper supports four TTS services currently.

  • StreamElements - A free service powered by… StreamElements.
  • TikTok - A free service powered by WeilByte.
  • Amazon Polly - A paid (but affordable) service that has all the same options as StreamElements, but better latency.
  • ElevenLabs - A paid (quite expensive) service that has very realistic sounding voices. You can train voices too!

Making some sound (with TTS)

In the side nav look for Text to Speech and select Settings. (So Text to Speech > Settings)
Scroll to the bottom of the page, you should see some buttons and StreamElements should be selected by default.

tts helper tts settings page service buttons

You can select your desired Language and TTS Voice. TTS Helper filters each service’s voices by language. It makes it easier for both you and me.

Now that we made sure you have your desired TTS voice selected, scroll back to the top of the page. Type anything into this and press play. You should hear something! tts helper play tts input

If you don’t hear anything…

There could be a couple things at fault:

  • If you see a red popup at the bottom of the screen that says something like Oops! Couldn't play that TTS!
    • Make sure there’s no firewalls blocking TTS Helper from making outward request.
    • TTS Helper only makes outward request to get TTS audio! It can’t work if it’s being blocked.
  • Your default audio device might not be what you expect…
    • On the same page (Text to Speech > Settings), you can select the audio device from the dropdown. Try changing this and playing again.