AB Genesis – UI – Playing with emotions

Overview

Emotions, in A. B. Genesis refers to the temporary alterations of a character’s (or narrator’s) voice. As much as possible, emotions are implemented using “styles” built-in into certain characters (like “sad”, “angry” or “happy”) or by explicitly modifying voice’s pitch, rate or volume. Emotions can be overlapping (sad + whispering), augmented !hurry or inverted ~hurry.

Note: emotions cannot be assigned to human-narrated characters.

Adding emotion

Going back to the first paragraph, we now what the text separated by — to be said faster. To do that, selected the text and then choose “Emotion/Hurry” from the ribbon or hit Shift-H to automatically set it to hurry.

Multiple Emotions

As per the characters, selecting a new emotion on the same text will replace it, but when holding Shift, it will add. Using one of the emotion accelerator, like Shift-O and Shift-P will add shout and hopeful.

Removing emotions

To remove emotions, right-click on the text box and select “Clear.”

Silence as an Emotion

The situation can arise when a section of the text needs to be omitted, either because a human narration includes addition text or, in the case below, where a human narrator, instead of reading the text, will provide an audio version of exhasperation.

Emotions and Accelerators

The current version does not easily allow for additional emotions to be defined, but it should be available in future updates. Also, emotions are control by using typographic elements outside of styling. The following table will show how emotions are mapped to typography in Word and accelerator in the Editor.

silence	double-strike	Shift-Backspace
hurry	italic	Shift-H
emphasis	bold	Shift-E
angry	all caps	Shift-A
raisingtone	small caps	Shift-R
excited	dashed underline	Shift-X
terrified	strike	Shift-T
sad	subscript	Shift-S
cheerful	superscript	Shift-C
whisper	single underline	Shift-W
shout	double underline	Shift-O
drunk	dotted underline	Shift-D
unfriendly	wavy underline	Shift-U
hopeful	wavy heavy underline	Shift-P
friendly	wavy double underline	Shift-F