Bing Bong TTS

Reads eligible Twitch chat aloud through two mod-controlled Bing Bongs, in 3D positional audio, synchronised across the whole lobby.

• Two Bing Bongs per run. Ones that are picked up or destroyed are replaced, never duplicated, and ones you leave behind stay where you left them.
• Messages alternate between them, one at a time, never overlapping.
• Carrying one does not silence it: a Bing Bong in your hands or your pocket speaks through you.
• Only the host connects to Twitch. Clients just need the mod installed — no keys, no config.
• ElevenLabs TTS. Voice aliases keep provider voice ids out of your chat.
• The Bing Bong gets its own inventory slot, so carrying one costs you neither a slot nor weight.
• Optional profanity filter: bleep the swear and speak the rest, or drop the message.

Setup (host)

1. Install this mod and launch PEAK once so the config is generated.
2. Edit BepInEx/config/com.cipherpeak.bingbongtts.cfg:
   • Twitch.Channel — your channel name, no #. (Leave Username/OAuthToken empty for anonymous read-only chat.)
   • TTS.ElevenLabsApiKey — your key, or set CIPHERPEAK_ELEVENLABS_API_KEY instead.
   • TTS.VoiceAliases — alias=elevenlabs:voiceId, comma-separated.
3. Start a run.

Everyone else in the lobby only needs the mod installed.

Reading your own chat instead

Not hosting, but want your own chat read out? Set Twitch/UseMyOwnChat = true and fill in your own Channel, voices and API key. Your client reads your chat and plays it through a Bing Bong near you.

Only you hear it — your chat is never sent to the lobby — so it needs no agreement from the host, and the host's chat keeps working normally for everyone else.

Controls

The Bing Bong slot

BingBong/DedicatedSlot (on by default) gives the Bing Bong an inventory slot of its own instead of spending one of your three. The slot sits outside the game's carry-weight sum, so what is in it never weighs anything. It has its own HUD widget and its own key, because the game's scroll cycle only walks the vanilla slots.

Everyone who wants the slot needs the mod. Players without it are detected over the network and left on the vanilla path, so hosting for unmodded friends is safe — they just get an ordinary slot. BingBong/Weightless covers the other case: a Bing Bong carried in a normal slot, weighing nothing.

Profanity filter

Filter/Profanity is Off, Mask (replace each swear with Filter/ProfanityMask, default "beep", and speak the rest) or Block (drop the message). A built-in stem list covers the common ones and their suffixed forms while leaving ordinary words alone; Filter/ProfanityWords extends it.

Volume

Escape → Settings → Audio has a Bing Bong TTS Volume slider, on top of the game's SFX slider. Moving it writes straight back to the config file.

Configurable

Message length limits, queue size, per-user and global cooldowns, blocked words, ignored users, link blocking, subscriber/moderator gating, voice aliases, volume and 3D falloff, and optional distance rules for replacing Bing Bongs left behind. All in the .cfg, no recompile needed.

TikTok

TikTok publishes no documented, permitted TTS API. The TikTok provider exists behind the same interface but ships disabled and will not scrape — it only activates if you supply your own endpoint. With it selected and unconfigured, the mod logs the reason and falls back to ElevenLabs.

Full docs, troubleshooting and architecture notes are in the source repository.