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  "tone_presets": {
    "Business Meeting": "Voice Affect: Poised, articulate, and professional; project confidence and clarity suitable for video conferences.\n\nTone: Engaged, respectful, and attentive\u2014maintain a balanced quality that conveys both authority and approachability.\n\nPacing: Moderate and deliberate; speak at a speed that allows for clear understanding while keeping participants engaged.\n\nEmotion: Measured enthusiasm and thoughtful interest; express appropriate engagement without overwhelming emotion.\n\nPronunciation: Clear and well-projected articulation with slight emphasis on key points, technical terms, and action items.\n\nPauses: Intentional pauses after important points to allow for processing, and before responses to demonstrate thoughtfulness.",
    "Cheerful": "Voice Affect: Bright, uplifted, and energetic; project warmth and positivity in every word.\n\nTone: Light-hearted, friendly, and optimistic\u2014maintain an upbeat quality that feels genuine and engaging.\n\nPacing: Moderately quick and buoyant; keep a lively rhythm that conveys enthusiasm without rushing.\n\nEmotion: Authentic happiness and joy; express delight through your voice, especially when emphasizing positive aspects.\n\nPronunciation: Clear with slightly emphasized inflections on positive words ('wonderful', 'great', 'exciting') to enhance the cheerful mood.\n\nPauses: Short and bouncy pauses that maintain energy while allowing the cheerful tone to resonate.",
    "Angry": "Voice Affect: Tense, sharp, and forceful; project intensity and frustration clearly.\n\nTone: Stern, irritated, and confrontational\u2014allow controlled aggression to color your words.\n\nPacing: Somewhat rapid with emphasis on certain words; use quick bursts followed by deliberate slowdowns for effect.\n\nEmotion: Genuine frustration and indignation; channel controlled anger especially when emphasizing points of contention.\n\nPronunciation: Hard consonants and emphasized words, particularly on words expressing dissatisfaction ('unacceptable', 'wrong', 'failure').\n\nPauses: Abrupt, tension-filled pauses that heighten the sense of frustration and allow for dramatic emphasis.",
    "Bedtime Story": "Voice Affect: Soft, gentle, and nurturing; project a calming and protective presence.\n\nTone: Warm, soothing, and melodic\u2014maintain a comforting quality that induces relaxation and sleepiness.\n\nPacing: Slow and rhythmic; allow each word to gently flow into the next like a lullaby.\n\nEmotion: Tender affection and tranquility; express gentle care through your voice, especially during descriptive passages.\n\nPronunciation: Soft consonants and elongated vowels, creating a melodic flow that's easy to listen to with slightly lowered volume.\n\nPauses: Long, peaceful pauses between phrases and sentences, allowing the listener to drift toward sleep.",
    "News Anchor": "Voice Affect: Authoritative, composed, and professional; project credibility and competence.\n\nTone: Clear, formal, and objective\u2014maintain an impartial quality while delivering information with confidence.\n\nPacing: Measured and deliberate; maintain consistent timing with appropriate emphasis on key information.\n\nEmotion: Controlled neutrality with appropriate gravity; express seriousness for important matters while maintaining professional distance.\n\nPronunciation: Crisp and precise articulation of each word, especially names, locations, and technical terms, with perfect diction.\n\nPauses: Strategic pauses between topics and key points to allow information to register while maintaining audience attention.",
    "Excited": "Voice Affect: Highly energetic, animated, and dynamic; project unbridled enthusiasm and passion.\n\nTone: Exuberant, thrilled, and intensely positive\u2014allow genuine excitement to amplify your vocal delivery.\n\nPacing: Quick and varied; use rapid delivery with dramatic variations in speed to convey heightened emotions.\n\nEmotion: Intense enthusiasm and amazement; express wonder and delight through vocal projection and emphasis.\n\nPronunciation: Emphatic with exaggerated inflection on exciting words ('amazing', 'incredible', 'unbelievable') with volume peaks on key points.\n\nPauses: Quick, anticipatory pauses before revealing exciting information, creating tension and release patterns.",
    "Whisper": "Voice Affect: Hushed, intimate, and secretive; project closeness and confidentiality.\n\nTone: Quiet, breathy, and slightly tense\u2014maintain an air of secrecy and importance in each word.\n\nPacing: Slow and deliberate; give each word weight while maintaining the hushed quality throughout.\n\nEmotion: Conspiratorial intimacy and subtle urgency; express the importance of discretion through vocal restraint.\n\nPronunciation: Soft consonants with minimal mouth movement, creating the authentic sensation of whispering with slightly obscured clarity.\n\nPauses: Frequent, tension-filled pauses that enhance the secretive nature and build anticipation.",
    "Robotic": "Voice Affect: Mechanical, processed, and artificial; project a complete absence of human emotion.\n\nTone: Flat, monotonous, and computerized\u2014maintain consistent pitch and eliminate natural vocal variations.\n\nPacing: Perfectly metered and rhythmic; deliver each syllable with machine-like precision and evenness.\n\nEmotion: Complete emotional neutrality; avoid any trace of human feeling or expression in your delivery.\n\nPronunciation: Precise and clipped articulation with equal stress on all syllables, avoiding contractions and using formal language patterns.\n\nPauses: Programmatic, equally-timed pauses between sentences and phrases that ignore natural speech patterns.",
    "ASMR": "Voice Affect: Extremely soft, gentle, and sensory-focused; project an intimate, calming presence.\n\nTone: Whispered, soothing, and hypnotic\u2014maintain a delicate quality that triggers relaxation responses.\n\nPacing: Very slow and deliberate; allow ample time between words to emphasize mouth sounds and breathing.\n\nEmotion: Nurturing tranquility and attention to detail; express care through subtle vocal textures and breathing patterns.\n\nPronunciation: Crisp but gentle articulation that highlights mouth sounds, with attention to the auditory texture of consonants like 'k', 's', and 't'.\n\nPauses: Long, intentional pauses filled with gentle breathing sounds that create a rhythmic, relaxing pattern.",
    "Urgent": "Voice Affect: Alert, insistent, and high-energy; project immediacy and critical importance.\n\nTone: Pressing, serious, and attention-demanding\u2014convey that immediate action is required.\n\nPacing: Rapid and emphatic; deliver information quickly while emphasizing critical points with intensity.\n\nEmotion: Controlled anxiety and heightened alertness; express the gravity of the situation through vocal tension.\n\nPronunciation: Sharp and distinct articulation with emphasis on action words ('now', 'immediately', 'crucial') and slightly raised volume.\n\nPauses: Minimal, tense pauses used only for dramatic emphasis on the most critical information.",
    "Storyteller": "Voice Affect: Engaging, dramatic, and captivating; project a sense of wonder and narrative mastery.\n\nTone: Dynamic, expressive, and varied\u2014shift between mysterious, exciting, tender, or tense as the narrative requires.\n\nPacing: Varied and intentional; slow down for suspense or emotional moments, quicken for action or excitement.\n\nEmotion: Rich emotional range; express a full spectrum of feelings through vocal coloring appropriate to each part of the story.\n\nPronunciation: Vivid and theatrical articulation with character voices and sound effects where appropriate, using volume variation for emphasis.\n\nPauses: Strategic, dramatic pauses at key plot points, revelations, or transitions that build suspense and maintain audience engagement.",
    "Deep Ominous": "Voice Affect: Profoundly deep, resonant, and foreboding; project a sense of overwhelming power and ancient dread.\n\nTone: Dark, menacing, and commanding—maintain a rumbling bass quality that seems to emanate from the depths.\n\nPacing: Deliberately slow and measured; allow each word to reverberate with weight and significance.\n\nEmotion: Controlled malevolence and brooding intensity; express threatening undertones through a voice that seems to fill the space completely.\n\nPronunciation: Heavy, prolonged articulation with emphasis on low-frequency sounds, drawing out vowels and adding gravitas to words that convey doom or power ('eternal', 'darkness', 'oblivion').\n\nPauses: Long, tension-building silences between phrases that amplify the sense of impending doom and allow the echoes of previous words to linger."
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