{ "EXAMPLES": [ { "label": "Stage fright", "text": "[clears throat] Ladies and gentlemen... [hesitates] I had a speech. [nervous laugh] I really did have a speech." }, { "label": "We won!", "text": "[with bright eager excitement] We won! We actually won! [laughs] I can't believe it!" }, { "label": "Missed train", "text": "[sighs] Fine. If we miss it, it's on you. [laughs] Well, maybe that's fair." }, { "label": "A secret", "text": "Promise me you won't tell her. [pause] Not a word. Not even a hint." }, { "label": "Bad news", "text": "[with heavy, deflated sadness] The results just came in. We didn't make it.", "note": "more amused than before; drop the hurt" }, { "label": "Goodbye", "text": "Direction: icy calm, as if you already accepted it. Put the rise on \"goodbye\".\nLine: So this is goodbye." }, { "label": "Commentator", "text": "[breathless, rising excitement] He's past one... past two... he shoots, and [shouting] HE SCORES! Unbelievable!" }, { "label": "Museum guard", "text": "Direction: deadpan, a bored museum guard at the end of a very long shift.\nLine: Please do not touch the dinosaur. Again." } ], "CAST": [ { "label": "đŸŽâ€â˜ ïž Sea captain", "name": "Captain", "desc": "gravelly old male voice, about seventy, weathered and slow, salt in every word", "scene": "a storm-battered tavern at the edge of the harbor", "text": "[low and menacing] Ye want to know what's out past the reef? [pause] Pray ye never find out." }, { "label": "đŸ“» Night radio", "name": "Night Owl", "desc": "smooth warm baritone, a late-night radio host, relaxed and intimate, close to the mic", "scene": "", "text": "It's two in the morning, the city's finally asleep... [chuckles] and you're still here with me. Good." }, { "label": "🧒 Hyper kid", "name": "Mia", "desc": "excited little girl, about seven, talks fast, giggly and breathless", "scene": "", "text": "[gasps] Did you see that? The dog just ate a WHOLE pizza! [laughs] Can we get a dog? Please please please?" }, { "label": "đŸ•”ïž Noir detective", "name": "Detective", "desc": "world-weary man in his forties, low smoky voice, clipped and dry", "scene": "a rain-soaked office, one desk lamp still on", "text": "She walked in at midnight. [pause] Trouble usually knocks. This one had a key." }, { "label": "📯 Royal herald", "name": "Herald", "desc": "booming, pompous royal herald, theatrical and grandly formal", "scene": "", "text": "[clears throat] Hear ye, hear ye! By order of the Queen, all cheese is hereby... [hesitates] mandatory." }, { "label": "😮 Sleepy intern", "name": "Emma", "desc": "young female voice, sleepy, half talking to herself", "scene": "a small office on a Monday morning; the weekly meeting is about to start", "text": "[softly][to herself] Here we go again... [sighs] Is it Friday yet?" }, { "label": "đŸŠč Villain", "name": "The Duke", "desc": "silky, theatrical villain with a rich low voice, amused and unhurried", "scene": "", "text": "How delightful. You actually thought the plan was yours. [laughs]" }, { "label": "đŸ‘” Nana", "name": "Nana", "desc": "warm elderly woman, soft and slightly shaky, a gentle storyteller", "scene": "a quiet bedroom, the lights already dimmed", "text": "[warm, gentle bedtime voice] Once upon a time, in a kingdom made entirely of cheese, there lived a very worried mouse." } ], "POINT_TAGS": [ "laughs", "chuckles", "sighs", "gasps", "pause", "clears throat", "hesitates" ], "SCOPED_TAGS": [ "whisper", "slow", "emphasis" ], "STYLES": [ "with bright eager excitement", "icy calm", "heavy, deflated sadness", "sarcastic and deadpan", "breathless and terrified", "furious, barely holding it together", "warm, gentle bedtime voice" ], "NOTES": [ "softer and warmer", "more excited", "more amused than before; drop the hurt", "slower, with more pauses", "angrier", "whispered", "faster", "more sarcastic" ] }