Audio blaring in my ear when another audio tries to play

[Lilya-Athena]

So I'm having issues with my audio settings in general on my OBS. Ever since I tried setting up Text to speech to allow people to talk through my mascot. My audio instead of hearing the text through speech. I hear like say the game screaming into my ear instead.

I thought maybe it was the virtual audio cables. I uninstalled them and it seemed to have fixed the problem and things went back to normal. Then my friend recommended VTS pogs as a replacement for talking through your mascot. It made me re download the virtual cables. I regrettably did and the audio started messing up again. Even after uninstalling the program my audio is still messing up and screaming into my ears. I tried everything to fix my audio settings. Even not using the vts pog program, it still is messing with my audio settings. I tried uninstalling obs aswell, uninstalling/clearing out the two websockets they made me use for the two previous set ups for text to speech through the mascot thinking maybe it was them and that was my problem but that still did not fix it either. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Lilya-Athena]

Okay so I factory reset my entire Computer, Reworked my obs and set up my VTS Pog program again. And the moment I tried text to speech, it messes with my audio once more. Is there anyway to fix this?

 

[MrGhost]

Okay so I factory reset my entire Computer, Reworked my obs and set up my VTS Pog program again. And the moment I tried text to speech, it messes with my audio once more. Is there anyway to fix this?

For sure. I can fix it. I can fix any audio problem. But I need to know exactly what you are doing, and it is not clear what you are using and how your routing is going.

It sounds like you are getting some text, maybe a chat? Then you send your chat to a TTS engine, which is speaking the text of course, and you must have an output setting on the TTS program which I am not familiar with.

So you pick up that output in your virtual cables (which virtual cables?) and you send it back as inputs that OBS can grab. So you get the inputs on OBS.

Is it possible that the TTS is also being sent as desktop audio so you are getting it twice?

 

[MrGhost]

It does sound like a feedback loop may be getting picked up.

So in that case you want to check what your audio device is in OBS that you are monitoring thru (settings - audio tab), and make sure that that is not being added to your VTS pog in the audio cables.

This seems likely to be the problem to me as I was looking at the VTS pog's doc on this page:

https://vtspog.com/docs/article/audio-configuration/

and it was telling me the following (quote):

"Here you will see listed all your available audio output devices in your PC, if you have already some audio source you are using and capturing in your streaming program of choice just click select and that’s about it."

So maybe you are monitoring your source and sending it back thru the input to OBS (which you are monitoring) causing a screaming feedback loop. Can this be the problem? Look in audio tab of settings in OBS and at monitor is it set to default? You may want to monitor carefully thru a set device rather than leaving as default. Or you can go in advanced audio settings and set to output only (then it is not monitored) for your VTS pog audio source. Of course this is just 1 potential point where feedback can be introduced. It could also be introduced at the (virtual) audio cables.

 

[Lilya-Athena]

For sure. I can fix it. I can fix any audio problem. But I need to know exactly what you are doing, and it is not clear what you are using and how your routing is going.

It sounds like you are getting some text, maybe a chat? Then you send your chat to a TTS engine, which is speaking the text of course, and you must have an output setting on the TTS program which I am not familiar with.

So you pick up that output in your virtual cables (which virtual cables?) and you send it back as inputs that OBS can grab. So you get the inputs on OBS.

Is it possible that the TTS is also being sent as desktop audio so you are getting it twice?

I'm not using any virtual cables now. I'm using the VTS pogs program

VTS P.O.G. by Eruben Thillior

Your all-in-one solution for text to speak pets for streamers

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which in the guide stated I could or didn't have to use the virtual cables for this program if I didn't want to. I tried using virtual cables twice and they messed up my audios before and even now without the cables it's still messing up my audio. I went with the second option the OBS AAC Beta it doesn't specially say I needed the virtual cables so I was hoping I could go on without them.

Audio Configuration - VTS P.O.G. documentation

VTS P.O.G. outputs audio by default to your default audio source (commonly either your headphones or speakers). While this may work in most cases, when you need some more control on the audio management you need to start doing some audio routing. Heres a list of different types of auio routings...

vtspog.com

 

[Lilya-Athena]

It does sound like a feedback loop may be getting picked up.

So in that case you want to check what your audio device is in OBS that you are monitoring thru (settings - audio tab), and make sure that that is not being added to your VTS pog in the audio cables.

This seems likely to be the problem to me as I was looking at the VTS pog's doc on this page:

https://vtspog.com/docs/article/audio-configuration/

and it was telling me the following (quote):

"Here you will see listed all your available audio output devices in your PC, if you have already some audio source you are using and capturing in your streaming program of choice just click select and that’s about it."

So maybe you are monitoring your source and sending it back thru the input to OBS (which you are monitoring) causing a screaming feedback loop. Can this be the problem? Look in audio tab of settings in OBS and at monitor is it set to default? You may want to monitor carefully thru a set device rather than leaving as default. Or you can go in advanced audio settings and set to output only (then it is not monitored) for your VTS pog audio source. Of course this is just 1 potential point where feedback can be introduced. It could also be introduced at the (virtual) audio cables.

I decided to drop it and try Virtual cables again and it seems to work now with no audio blaring, my only problem now is it works for a moment and then and it stops working and I no longer hear the text to speech.

 

[MrGhost]

I decided to drop it and try Virtual cables again and it seems to work now with no audio blaring, my only problem now is it works for a moment and then and it stops working and I no longer hear the text to speech.

Try Voicemeeter banana or potato virtual cables. (Potato has more tracks 3, Banana has 2). Set your ins from the tts voicing, then the outs to 1 of the voicemeeter outs (it may read as outs and ins, and it can be confusing). In OBS get the Voicemeeter virtual as your audio source input. It doesn't do dropouts for any sort of demo version.