ChatService:GetSpeaker() isn't consistent

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#1

Hello everyone,

I’m making a chat tag system for my game using the roblox chat API. However, when I get the speaker object of the player it sometimes returns nil and sometimes doesn’t.

function TagsFunctions:EquipTag(PlayerName,Tag)

	local Player = PlayerService:FindFirstChild(PlayerName)
	local PlayerData = SavedPlayerDataManager.Profiles[Player]

	if PlayerData then

		local Table = TagsFunctions:GetEquippedTags(PlayerName)
		local Speaker 
		
		for i,v in ipairs(ChatService:GetSpeakerList()) do

			if v == PlayerName then
				Speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(PlayerName)
			end
		end
end

I’ve also tried directly get the speaker without the loop but that still didn’t work. Any one knows what’s the problem?

Thank you.

1 Like
#2

Why did you add the loop through the speakers , couldn’t you just do

Speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(PlayerName)

without the loop?

#3

because that didn’t work either

#4

Is this not a bit redundant, why not grab the player directly then check if it’s nil

local Speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(PlayerName)
if not Speaker then
  -- whoops?
  return
end

If you’re getting inconsistent GetSpeaker calls, why not print the PlayerName and see what it is when you try to get the speaker

#5

The problem doesn’t seem to be from the playername variable as this always returns the player name and never returns nil so the issue mostly stems doen from the ChatService:GetSpeaker call