Alert System - Major Bugs
I've been using the alert system for about a week now on my partnered channel and I've run into a number of serious bugs with it. Many of these stop use of the alerting system entirely or make it cumbersome to use. Trying to go through the ticketing system directed me here. Because of these issues I cannot use the alert system until they are resolved as it breaks the stream entirely.
Skip Alert randomly stops functioning for hours at a time. - There doesn't seem to be a reason for this and it cannot be fixed on the users end. This just happens and you have to wait it out as a streamer. No amount of refreshing or enabling/disabling will resolve this. Once this happens the Chat will instantly turn into goblins and post a million 7's which you can no longer stop.
Sending an alert message with over 400 7's will break alerts until disabled/enabled. - This seems to stem from the Text To Speech system slowing down for longer messages and just hanging forever. Anything over 400 characters will delay or break the alerting system due to this. 7's are particularly bad because TTS attempts to say the entire number instead of each seven individually. This is not an issue for Streamlabs alerts so I'm not sure what's happening here.
Audio and Text To Speech contains audible pops and distortion when volume is set below 100%. - This appears to be scaling audio incorrectly which causes the distortion effect. The lower the volume, the worse the distortion. Each time the audio plays the distortion is different. The distortion is not present in the source audio.
Very long audio files cause text to speech to distort or start in the middle of the sentence. - The audio in long files just cuts off TTS or causes TTS to chime in multiple words into the message. Lots of weird issues around this.
Custom sounds sometimes cut off and make a terrible screech when doing so. - Sounds have a ton of issues but this one seems to happen a lot when TTS is also enabled.
Alerts sometimes go through out of order. - This seems to stem from TTS again. Long TTS messages can cause all kinds of delays and oddness.
URLs are voiced by Text to Speech in alert messages. - URLs should not be passed to the TTS system at all.
Text To Speech is starting after the included audio file instead of at the start of the alert. - The Delay setting should be our scalar for when TTS should start. Instead TTS starts at the end of the audio file and then initiates Delay. This means if you have an audio file with empty sound at the end it delays TTS. It's very awkward to use this way. It also makes Delay a useless feature as-is.
The Preview window goes behind the UI and that UI cannot be moved or hidden making Preview impossible to see. - This makes the Preview window pretty useless overall. My graphics are just hidden behind the UI the entire time. Scaling the window to fit and scaling the assets to show general placement would make this feature much better.
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LiliumCobra commented
I agree that the alerts' issues stem from the TTS function. Up until last Friday or so, my alerts (almost all of which included TTS) were working fine. Then, they completely stopped populating in Streamlabs this week. After hours of troubleshooting the issue, I figured out how to deal with it for now.
I have turned off TTS on all of my alerts (voice and length do not seem to matter) for all Twitch alerts. I hope the issue is fixed shortly, but given the age of this original post, I am not going to hold my breath. We will miss you, Ivy- the voice of a sweet angel. 😭😭😭😭😭😭 -
ghidan89 commented
Salve, ho riscontrato anche io un problema con gli allert.
Tutti gli allert che dispongono di " recita testo vocale " non funzionano, tolta l'impostazione del testo vocale gli allert riprendono a funzionare.
Peccato perchè i miei follower si divertivano parecchio a sentire il loro nome in live, spero venga risolto presto il problema. -
jamesanderson0345 commented
I am also getting the cutoff glitch and it is very frustrating when it happens
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ElCaifan_B2R commented
También presento problemas con las alertas, específicamente con la parte de puntos del canal. En ocasiones no aparecen cuan un espectador canjea alguna recompensa y, en estos últimos par de días, ya no aparecen o solo aparecen muy poco. Ojalá pudieran apoyarnos a corregirlo ya que yo migré todas mis alerta de otra web hacia twitch.
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Niimaj commented
Same thing here. Alerts from twitch stop working for no reason. I manage somehow to make it work again and poof. Dead again. Even the " test alert " don't communicate with my obs now.
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catgirlnextdoor commented
I'm also having many of the issues described above. Found this user voice when looking for a solution to the alerts just not playing custom audio/video at all randomly sometimes, or cutting off after a few seconds of playing. It doesn't seem to be consistent with anything, and it working at the start of stream doesn't mean it'll work 30 minutes from then. As is, they're unusable.
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LordAdriox commented
I am also getting the cutoff glitch and it is very frustrating when it happens
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MisterCorpseMilk commented
Since the update I have had ALL audio alerts cut down to 3 seconds maximum duration. I have created new alert boxes, used the browser source feature, completely torn down and rebuilt my alerts. NOTHING.
Viewers are losing channel points to bugged alerts due to this issue. Raids are not as exciting because there is only 3 seconds of audio playing. Those who follow or sub, or donate are getting ripped off when they get their alert cut off.
Please do SOMETHING about this. We're using your software over others in hopes for LESS problems not MORE.
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ZilchGnu commented
This has been super frustrating as a viewer and as someone who does work behind the scenes for multiple partners.
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straightupphat commented
Be better Twitch
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darknase commented
Broken alert system. Top priority fix!
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SoImyr commented
As an addition, the following points:
- Since the Channelpoint update, the size of my video files for all alerts has been reduced.
- The fade-out animation, where the videos used to slide up or down, no longer works.
- Video files are frequently skipped, resulting in only the text being displayed. -
PirateSoftware commented
This alerting system would be really fantastic without these issues. As it stands I have to go back to using Streamlabs (I don't want to) because it breaks the stream flow so horribly each time it implodes.