Hindi and Hinglish text to speech for live streams
By Debarshi Parasar · Updated November 5, 2026
Indian live chat is rarely in one language. Viewers write Hindi in English letters, mix in English words, and shorten everything. A chat reader built for English struggles with that. CHATDOOM was built for this kind of chat from the start.
Why Hinglish is hard to read aloud
A message like "bhai kya clutch tha" isn't English, but it isn't written in Hindi script either. An English voice tries to pronounce it as English, and short forms like "abt" and "wbu" get read letter by letter or sound wrong.
CHATDOOM handles this in two ways. It rewrites common chat slang before speaking, so "abt" becomes "about" and "wbu" becomes "what about you". It also picks a suitable voice for each kind of message.
The voices you can use
- Swara: Hindi, female
- Madhur: Hindi, male
- Neerja: Indian English, female
- Prabhat: Indian English, male
These are natural neural voices, and they need an internet connection. If they aren't available, CHATDOOM falls back to the voices installed on Windows.
How to set it up
- Download CHATDOOM and connect your chat on the Connect page.
- Open the Voice page and choose Neural voices as the voice engine.
- Under Language voices, pick who speaks each kind of message.
- Set the speed and volume under Playback.
- Add CHATDOOM to OBS, as shown in how to read live chat aloud in OBS.
Teach it your community's words
Every chat has its own slang and names. Use the Word list on the Voice page to manage words and how they are pronounced when CHATDOOM reads Hinglish chat.
Useful options
- Paid messages only: read only tips and Super Chats, which helps when chat is very busy.
- Different voices for viewers: give viewers their own voices, so regulars are easy to recognise.
- Translation: have messages in other languages translated into English before they are read.
- Blocked words: stop words you don't want spoken on your stream.
Keep going
Next, keep your chat clean with a moderator bot for YouTube live chat.