Emotion tags

Inline tags that change how a line is delivered, on Maya 2 Native Emotional.

Set "model": "Maya 2 Native Emotional" and write a tag inline, at the start of the text it should affect:

HTTP

{
  "text": "[excited] मुझे यह सुनकर बहुत अच्छा लगा।",
  "voice": "Ananya",
  "language": "hi",
  "model": "Maya 2 Native Emotional"
}

Available on both transports. On the socket, model goes on start and is sticky for the connection.

Tags

Tag
[whispers]	quieter, closer
[excited]	faster, brighter
[frustrated]	tighter, clipped
[nervous]	hesitant
[sad]	slower, heavier
[curious]	rising, questioning
[laughs]	laughter in the line
[sighs]	an audible sigh
[clears throat]	a throat-clear before the line
[coughs]	a cough before the line

Written in square brackets, exactly as shown. A tag applies from where it appears onward, so put it at the start of the sentence it should affect.

An unrecognised tag is read aloud. It is not stripped and not rejected — [exicted] hi risks the listener hearing “exicted hi”. Check every tag against this table character by character; nothing validates them for you.

Two things to expect

Slower than the default, and noticeably so on the first call after the deployment has been idle — it runs as a single Mumbai deployment and is not pre-warmed. A US caller pays the crossing too, since there is no local replica.

Send one throwaway request when your process starts. That absorbs the cold call, and everything after it is warm.

Output is not reproducible. The same request returns different audio each time. Measured: 100 identical requests sent twice produced 100 different pairs. The default model is stable for identical input; this one is not, so do not cache by request hash and do not expect two runs to match.

Everything else is identical — same URL, same key, same frames, same 24 kHz PCM. Only model changes.