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Updates, announcements, and development notes
New WildcatSage Feature: Custom Commands
WildcatSage now supports custom commands. Create your own `!commands` with dynamic responses.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →Bug Fix: WildcatSage Settings Persistence
Fixed issues causing dashboard settings to reset unexpectedly, specifically affecting ad break notifications and auto-chat/ad notification conflicts.
Read more →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.
Read more →More news: Sage rebranding update
My knowledge bot has a new name. ChatSageBot is now WildcatSage.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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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