Although microphones are wonderful, there are moments when you wish you could communicate with a computer instead, right?

By reading what you type directly to your channel, the Text-to-Speech (TTS) function will enable you to realize your wildest robot fantasies and bring your robot dreams to life.

Sending Text-To-Speech in Discord

This should not be difficult. To have Text-to-Speech read a sentence for you, simply write /tts before the sentence you want read. To read this sentence, therefore:

“Discord’s pretty awesome.”

Just type:

/tts Discord’s pretty awesome

Note: The text-to-speech (TTS) system uses the same basic system settings as Discord itself. Internet browsers like Chrome and Firefox use a distinct text-to-speech reading bot than do desktop operating systems like Windows and Mac. There are a variety of TTS voices available, and the one you hear will depend on the platform you’re using!

Make It Stop!

The troll in your channel just had the TTS bot read “WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW To narrow down who and which channels are allowed to make use of TTS, we have two different vetting processes available to us.

Method One: Notification Settings & Server-Wide Mute

You can find the first TTS toggle setting in this location:

Text-to-speech can be enabled under User Settings > Notifications >

You have the following choices before you:

For all channels: This setting makes it possible for any channel on any server to have its messages read aloud using Text-to-Speech, independent of whether or not the users of that channel use the /tts command. If you have this feature activated, you will hear a significant quantity of text-to-speech across every one of your channels. Take care when you use this!
For current selected channel: When this option is selected, the Text-to-Speech feature will be activated for the particular text channel that you are currently using.
Never: The dulcet tones of the Text-to-Speech bot are not going to be audible to you anywhere in Discord, regardless of how hard your pals attempt to make it happen. (Unless in the case where you take part in it personally, of course.)

If you wish to listen in on what your pals are typing, you will find this Screen to be especially helpful.

Method Two: Read Your Own Sentences!

You may locate the second TTS toggle setting in this location:

Accessibility can be found by clicking the User Settings option, followed by App Settings.

Adjust the rate at which the text is read back to you by utilising the setting that is designated for the “Text to speech rate.”

This enables or disables the /tts command, depending on which setting you use. If you have this option deselected and then enter in a sentence using the /tts command, the Text-to-Speech bot will not read it out loud to you. A sad tale really.

Note: The Text-to-Speech (TTS) options found in the Notifications tab are entirely distinct from the TTS options found in the Accessibility page. No matter what TTS settings you choose, if a user has TTS notifications enabled like in method one, they will hear your sentences written in TTS. This is the case regardless of whether or not you have chosen to use TTS notifications. In a similar vein, if they turn off TTS notifications, they won’t be able to hear any of your sentences read out loud by TTS.

It brings us to the end of it! We hope that these helpful hints will make your experiences with the robots more enjoyable, and we send our best wishes your way!

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