New Features (v1.74.0.6)

• Bug Fix: Prevent competing chat tabs from interrupting narration and avoid delayed recovery attempts after speech has already resumed.
• Improvement: Advance narration without a background-tab timer delay between messages.
• Bug Fix: Start streams automatically only when remembered channel state or raid continuation is enabled. Both options are off by default.
• Bug Fix: Recognize raid redirects separately from incoming raid announcements and clear queued speech when changing channels.

New Features (v1.74.0.5)

• Compatibility: Missing access is now requested for the current supported site directly from a toolbar action, and its TTS controls are restored without requiring a second click.

New Features (v1.74.0.4)

• Bug Fix: Every seasonal theme now colors the main TTS and adjacent control buttons consistently across all supported streaming sites.

New Features (v1.74.0.3)

• Compatibility: Restore TTS controls on already-open supported chat pages after installation, updates, or a newly approved site-access grant.
• Improvement: Request only the active supported site when access is missing, with an explicit toolbar-menu option to approve all supported chat sites together.
• Bug Fix: Verify that page controls are ready and safely restore them before running toolbar commands.

New Features (v1.74.0.2)

• Bug Fix: Recover unexpected narration pauses while preserving intentional Pause, Stop, and Skip actions.
• Bug Fix: Keep queued speech moving while typing in Settings, preserve zero-volume mute, and release stalled playback after voice errors.
• Bug Fix: Prevent outdated reader playback callbacks from skipping passages or changing a newer narration session.
• Bug Fix: Include missing channel profiles and per-user rules when merging settings backups.
• Bug Fix: Open the On-Demand Reader from the toolbar menu on any website.

New Features (v1.74.0.1)

• Keeps the TTS and Queue controls attached as one clean horizontal split control after navigation, reinjection, or visibility changes.
• Records visible chat as backlog before observation begins so reopening an enabled channel never reads old messages.
• Adds safer speech-engine recovery that advances the queue without replaying interrupted or silently abandoned messages.
• Makes every explicit enable/disable action claim the speech engine and announce its state promptly, even after a voice preview or stale browser utterance.
• Adds a lightweight chat-row fallback scan so newly arriving messages are not delayed when a streaming site misses or changes a DOM mutation.
• Compacts Rules, Filters & Backup action buttons into clean content-sized rows instead of oversized full-width controls.
• Keeps narration independent from stream mute state and removes keyboard/focus handlers that could interrupt speech while typing in chat or another application.
• Further reduces advanced Settings button height and padding for a cleaner, less bulky interface.
• Resumes unexpected speech cancellations from the last reported word instead of silently dropping the rest of the message while the user types.
• Groups rapid cheer bursts into one concise total and suppresses individual recipient notices after a community gift-batch announcement.
• Adds a responsive On-Demand Reader for pasted text plus PDF, EPUB, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, HTML, CSV, JSON, LOG, and subtitle files.
• Adds one-click Start Reading, shared Live Chat TTS voice/rate/pitch/volume settings, and an in-dashboard voice preview.
• Keeps PDF and e-book extraction local with a bundled, store-safe PDF.js reader; scanned PDFs still require OCR and DRM-protected books are not supported.
• Remembers the last document and exact passage locally by default, restoring it automatically the next time the On-Demand Reader opens; this can be disabled from the reader.
• Updates settings backup format to include the reader resume preference and bounded bookmark metadata without embedding the document text itself.
• Adds live word count plus estimated total and remaining narration time based on the selected speech rate, automatically recalibrating from completed passages for better voice-specific accuracy.

New Features (v1.74.0.0)

• Reworked channel-profile, per-user-rule, and settings-backup actions into clearer, evenly spaced control groups.
• Rod/Wand result messages from StreamElements now identify the chatter represented by the first result token instead of announcing StreamElements as the owner.

Aar318's Live Chat TTS v1.73.0.1

Fixed: Repeated Messages

• Restored the missing TTS/Queue controls on Kick with current header and chat-composer placement fallbacks.
• Prevented Twitch, Kick, and YouTube chat reconnections from reading already-visible messages again.
• Added stable message-ID tracking when platforms provide an ID, plus bounded fallback duplicate protection.
• Prevented one message from entering the waiting or speaking queue more than once.
• Added cross-tab coordination so duplicate copies of the same live chat cannot both announce one message.
• Prevented delayed completion or cancellation callbacks from interfering with a newer utterance.
• Interrupted speech now resumes only after verified word progress and never restarts the entire message from the beginning.
• Replaced continuous resume polling with one-shot pause recovery to prevent repeated fragments when games or other applications disturb the Windows speech/audio stream.
• Prevented unrelated embedded frames from starting additional TTS speech runtimes.

Improved: Stability and Performance

• Closed a queue-start race that could remove multiple messages before speech officially began.
• Replaced per-message expiry timers with a capped timestamp cache for lower long-session overhead.
• Existing voice pause protection remains active while typing, changing tabs, or switching windows.

All chat processing and speech remain local through the browser's Web Speech API.

Aar318's Live Chat TTS v1.73.0.0

New: More Reliable Speech

• Added stronger recovery from unexpected browser speech pauses while typing, changing Twitch tabs, or switching windows.
• Improved Twitch control placement so desktop controls stay on the right side of the top navigation and narrow layouts remain right-aligned.

New: Remembered Channel State

• TTS can remember whether it should start enabled or disabled for each streamer.
• Added settings to enable or disable all saved channels at once.
• Added an optional, off-by-default setting to keep TTS enabled when following a raid. A saved setting for the raided channel always takes priority.

New: First-Time Chat and Custom Commands

• Added an optional “First Time Chat” announcement for Twitch's first-time chatter indicator.
• Added custom bot-command output patterns: paste sample output, highlight changing values, and mark them as variables.
• Matching custom responses omit the bot name and emoji. Custom command patterns are preserved by settings export/import.

Improved Bot Results

• Recognized rod and wand results now announce the user named inside the response instead of StreamElements.
• Unrelated trailing emotes and result text are no longer announced as usernames.

All speech and custom command matching remain local through the browser's Web Speech API.

Aar318's Live Chat TTS v1.72.0.0

New: Compact Queue Controller

• Added pause/resume, skip, replay, clear, volume, current-message, next-message, and waiting-count controls.
• Kept the injected toolbar compact with exactly two equal-size buttons in one seamless TTS | Queue segment.
• Left-click TTS toggles speech; left-click Queue opens the controller; right-click either button opens Settings.

New: Smarter Anti-Spam and Priority Rules

• Repeated and highly similar copy-paste messages can be collapsed without limiting how frequently an individual chatter may be read.
• Subscriptions, raids, supported moderation events, highlighted or paid messages, favorite users, and Priority rules can move ahead of ordinary chat.

New: Channel Profiles

• Save and automatically restore voice, volume, rate, pitch, pronunciation, filters, anti-spam, priority preferences, and per-user rules for each channel.
• Added focused tooltips for queue actions, anti-spam behavior, priority controls, and channel profiles.

All speech remains local through the browser’s Web Speech API.

Long-running chat memory is now bounded for autocomplete users, active-channel users, and page-session chatter history.

Settings backups continue to include all voices, speech controls, pronunciation mappings, filters, anti-spam rules, priority rules, per-user rules, and channel profiles. Export filenames and import labels are now platform-neutral for Twitch, Kick, and YouTube Live.

Chat-composer typing on Twitch, Kick, and YouTube Live no longer repeatedly resumes an already-running voice. All three editors now use the pause-aware typing guard for smoother uninterrupted playback.

Aar318's Live Chat TTS v1.71.0.0

• Renamed extension to “Aar318's Live Chat TTS” so future live-chat platforms do not make the name unwieldy.
• Added Kick chat extraction, toolbar placement, subscription/gift detection, and composer-safe speech handling.
• Added global speech-rate and pitch controls.
• Added optional minimum and maximum message-length filters (off by default), with a suggested 5–300 character preset.
• Added per-user Normal, Mute, and Priority rules with optional voice, rate, pitch, and pronunciation overrides.
• Priority users bypass length filters and move to the front of the waiting speech queue.
• Added subscription, resubscription, gift-sub, Prime, and Tier 1/2/3 announcements where the site exposes the details.
• Reorganized panel around an obvious settings gear: message filters, per-user rules, and settings backup now live in a dedicated advanced settings view.
• Moved Ko-fi, Donate, author, and installed-version details into a clean top header.
• Standardized the persistent settings header metadata as “v1.71.0.0 by Hor318”.
• Confirmed left-click toggles TTS and added right-click as an alternate way to open its settings panel.
• Fixed Kick chat observation failures caused by the undefined kickMessageSelector reference.
• Moved desktop Kick controls toward the top search/header area, with the chat footer retained as a safe fallback.
• Added an inverse Kick theme: green controls by default with a purple enabled state.
• Made the Kick color theme resilient to Kick’s page hydration so the controls no longer flash green and then fall back to Twitch purple.
• Locked the intended inverse Kick enabled style after holiday/theme rules: the control stays green and gains a purple outer highlight when active.
• Forced readable dark settings fields and replaced the loosely arranged settings buttons with a polished two-tab layout.
• Added YouTube Live chat speech, membership/subscription announcement extraction, and controls beside the YouTube live-chat composer.
• Moved the visible YouTube TTS control into the main masthead so it remains available above live chat even when the Top Chat menu or composer changes.
• Added YouTube-red controls with a persistent purple enabled highlight plus live-chat header fallbacks when the composer is unavailable.
• Routed extension-icon toggle/settings/stop/selection commands into YouTube’s live-chat frame.
• Broadened Kick chat-root and message detection while retaining the green control surface after site/theme updates.
• Kept rod/wand results condensed to “user: ROD/WAND is length long and width thick.”
• Removed the unused activeTab permission and added only the Twitch, Kick, and YouTube host access needed by the content script.
• Fixed the YouTube masthead TTS control so left-click directly updates the visible state, relays that state into every live-chat frame, starts/stops observation, and announces Enabled/Disabled exactly o

Aar318's Twitch TTS v1.70.0.0
Changes since v1.69.0.0

• Added spoken announcements for Twitch subscriptions and resubscriptions.
• Announces Prime and Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 when Twitch exposes the plan in the notice.
• Added concise announcements for individual gift subscriptions and community gift-sub batches.
• Subscription notices use the existing speech queue and 30-second duplicate protection.
• Preserved chat, cheer, donation, rod/wand, mention, emote, exclusion, mobile-control, and fullscreen behavior.

New in 1.69.0.0

• Added explicit m.twitch.tv support for the userscript and Chrome/Firefox extensions.
• Added a coordinated mobile top control bar when Twitch's desktop navigation controls are unavailable.
• Positioned TTS immediately to the right of Reading Mask with a dedicated gap in the coordinated mobile top bar so their borders no longer overlap.
• Kept the mobile TTS group aligned inside Twitch's top bar rather than floating over the video.
• Kept the control at a stable page position and lowered its stacking priority so native dialogs and foreground app prompts can naturally cover it.
• Controls now move between mobile and desktop placement as the viewport changes.
• Desktop TTS controls compact automatically before Twitch's header becomes crowded.
• Expanded mobile chat-container compatibility.
• Rod and wand bot results are condensed to: “[user]: ROD/WAND is [length] long and [width] thick.”
• Retained fullscreen hiding, touch-friendly settings, and responsive settings-panel behavior.

New in version 1.67.0.0:

• Added “Stop Speaking” to immediately cancel current speech and clear the message queue.
• Added “Speak selected text” to the Twitch right-click menu.
• Added Ko-fi and Donate shortcuts to the settings panel and extension menu.
• Improved voice loading and retry behavior when browser speech voices are not immediately available.
• Improved username-cache handling when navigating between Twitch channels.
• Improved extension controls and speech reliability.

Bug fix on custom mapping fields