
That way, you wouldn’t get banned for using swear words in an inoffensive way. Instead of banning people for specific keywords, why not use AI to provide sharper moderation? Language technologies allow the analysis of text and can recognize inappropriate sentences or paragraphs, even when they don’t use key swear words. RankingĮver wanted instant access to all streamer rankings on Twitch? Make the ultimate Twitch ranking bot! Smart moderation A bot can easily provide the information to anyone in natural language. Including this information directly in Twitch and so keeping the viewer on the stream, is a good way to increase viewing rates. Most share the information on social networks. Major streamers typically have a webpage where people can access their schedule to discover if and when they’re going to play a certain game. What is this streamer’s setup? Where are they from? Do they often compete? What mic are they using? Many questions can be answered by a bot integrated into the streamer’s channel. When discovering a new stream, you can easily get confused: what’s going on? What is this game, which version is it? How long has this stream been going on? When does it end? A bot is the perfect way to provide precise answers to these questions in a very natural ways.

Here are a few we gathered: Stream general information With both private messages and general chats, there are great ideas all around. Twitch, as a social platform and a messaging channel, offers endless possibilities for bots. Changing the bot landscape in the streaming world Ideal to reach out to new viewers, or treat existing ones.Īnd what’s in it for the streamer? A multilingual bot manages all basic questions for them, so the streamer can focus on animating a fun and insightful conversation about the stream itself.

Multilingual bots can understand any language and provide answers in the user’s tongue, making the viewers’ experience smoother and closer to home. But many viewers aren’t native English speakers, and are craving for content in their own language. Twitch, like the majority of the internet, is English-speaking.

It’s important to care for your existing community. Imagine the things you could do! Impressing viewers through deep understanding Giving Twitch bots the power of understanding human language brings us the simplicity of conversing with them like we would with a friend. The general chats would not be overwhelmed with basic questions but gather interesting and fun content. The rules of banning could be more natural, meaning people would stop getting banned for using curse words without insulting anyone. Experienced viewers could still type !uptime, but new ones could simply say “how long have you been streaming?” and get the same answer. That makes current bots hard to reach and very, well… robotic.Ĭreating bots with NLP (natural language processing) solves this issue very simply: it makes them understand human language in addition to commands. Many Twitch users don’t know the command to get that information, or any other command for that matter.

As I’m writing, a few Twitch users will be typing !uptime to know how long the streaming they just joined has been going on for.
