Updates, announcements, and development notes
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.
Read more →Emote descriptions are now permanently cached and moderators can view, regenerate, or manually set descriptions with the new !tts emote command.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →Custom commands can now use AI to generate a unique response every time. Create fun, dynamic interactions with a single prompt.
Read more →Introducing the Wildcat.chat blog — a place for platform updates, feature announcements, and development notes.
Read more →WildcatSage now supports custom commands. Create your own `!commands` with dynamic responses.
Read more →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 →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 →Fixed issues causing dashboard settings to reset unexpectedly, specifically affecting ad break notifications and auto-chat/ad notification conflicts.
Read more →ChatVibes has officially rebranded to WildcatTTS. This update gives the TTS service a clearer identity and a cleaner dashboard.
Read more →My knowledge bot has a new name. ChatSageBot is now WildcatSage.
Read more →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 →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 →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 →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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