Let your viewers play sounds on stream — an air horn, a rimshot, your
catchphrase. They type !sound airhorn in chat, or redeem a Twitch
channel-point reward, and it plays through your stream.
!sound <name>works in Kick and Twitch chat!soundslists every sound (with its cost, if it has one)
Prerequisites
- Sounds play through your Alert Box overlay in OBS or Meld (part of Pro). Create one under Dashboard → Overlays if you don't have it yet.
- Sounds play one at a time, in the same queue as your alerts, so they never talk over a follow or sub alert.
Step 1: Add a Sound
- Go to Dashboard → Soundboard → Add sound
- Choose the name viewers type — letters, numbers,
-or_, e.g.airhornfor!sound airhorn - Pick one of 70+ built-in sounds or upload your own (MP3, WAV or OGG, up to 5MB — short clips work best). Search by name or browse a category; clicking a sound selects and previews it.
- Set the volume
- Optional settings:
- Cost in points — viewers spend points to play it (0 = free)
- Cooldown — how long before anyone can play this sound again (default 30 seconds)
- Who can play it — everyone, subs and mods, or mods only
- Twitch channel-point reward — see Step 2
- Click Add sound, then the paper-plane button to hear it on your overlay right away
Step 2: Channel-Point Rewards (Twitch, Optional)
- On Twitch, create a custom channel-point reward, e.g. Air Horn
- In SheekBot, edit the sound and type the reward's exact title in Twitch channel-point reward
- When a viewer redeems it, the sound plays
Channel points are the payment here, so the points cost and cooldown you set in SheekBot don't apply — use the reward's own cooldown settings on Twitch.
How Limits Work
- Each sound has its own cooldown, shared by everyone
- Each viewer waits 10 seconds between sounds (moderators skip this)
- Points are earned by chatting on Kick. If a sound costs more than a viewer has, SheekBot tells them, and nothing is taken.
- At most 3 sounds wait in the queue at once; extra requests get "the soundboard is busy". Your alerts are never pushed out by sounds.
- If a sound can't play, no points are spent and no cooldown is used up
Troubleshooting
- "The soundboard isn't set up on stream right now" — the Soundboard alert is switched off. Turn it back on under Dashboard → Alerts (switching it off there is also a quick way to mute the soundboard).
- The test plays nothing on stream — make sure the Alert Box overlay is in your scene and its audio isn't muted in your OBS or Meld mixer.
- A channel-point reward doesn't play anything — the title must match the reward exactly (capital letters don't matter).
- Viewers say they don't have enough points — points come from chatting on Kick. Lower the cost, or make the sound free.
Need Help?
- Support: sheekbot.dialdesigns.org/support
- Email: support@dialdesigns.org
See also: Viewer Entrances, Chat Text-to-Speech