Control your stream with your voice

Say party mode and the lights flash. Runs entirely on your PC - nothing is uploaded.

The desktop app can listen for spoken commands and act on them - flash the lights, switch an OBS scene, play a sound, pop an overlay. The speech model runs on your own computer: your microphone audio is transcribed locally and discarded, never uploaded, recorded or sampled. The speech engine and the recommended model come with the app, so there is nothing to install.

  1. Open the desktop app and go to Voice control in the sidebar.
  2. Turn on Enable voice control.
  3. Under 1 · Speech engine, check it says Built-in engine ready and leave Model on Base - built-in, recommended. Bigger models are more accurate and caption more languages but work your CPU harder: Tiny is faster and rougher, Small is more accurate (and unlocks Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese captions), Turbo is the most accurate (every caption language) but needs a graphics card to keep up with live captions. The others need a one-time Download model.
  4. Under 2 · How it listens, choose the Mode: Press-to-talk (hotkey) uses a hotkey, Wake word (always listening) listens for hey griddle all the time.
  5. Pick your Microphone (audio input), then adjust Input sensitivity and Listen window (sec).
  6. Under 3 · Voice commands, type a phrase like party mode into When I say, choose what to Do, and click Add command.
  7. Use Test - press & speak to check it hears you.

Press-to-talk is the setting to start with. Wake word means the app is listening continuously, which costs CPU on the machine that is also encoding your stream, and it will occasionally trigger on something you said to chat.

On a Lights command you can name the colour as you speak - lights blue, lights rainbow - and it overrides the configured colour for that one firing. Whisper handles accents well. Spoken language can detect the language on its own, but picking yours roughly halves the CPU it uses.

All setup guides  ·  Install and pair the desktop app  ·  Put a macro on a Stream Deck button  ·  Control OBS from the dashboard

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