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Here you go: http://www.patents.com/Generating-paralinguistic-phenomena-via-markup-text-to-speech-synthesis/US7472065/en-US/ http://www.patents.com/Generating-

Here you go: http://www.patents.com/Generating-paralinguistic-phenomena-via-markup-text-to-speech-synthesis/US7472065/en-US/ http://www.patents.com/Generating-paralinguistic-phenomena-v... But that said, it mostly just sounds like a way to insert a bunch of annoying "umms" and "ahs" into artificial conversation.

lunchbox 18y ago
So it looks like this system has people use simple textual markup. From the patent: "For example, the developer may specify: <prosody style="bad news">Well, \sigh I cannot answer that question;</prosody>"
- sosuke 18y ago
  Perfect candidate for EmotionML? http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotionml/ http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotionml/