Closed andrewn closed 6 years ago
This is great! Is there a way to express a different tonality when speaking the emojis?
e.g. in macOS say
, you can add emphasis to certain words
That's a really nice idea.
speechd
supports SSML MODE, which is a markup language that supports things like <emphasis>
but it does say "here is no guarantee that the SSML markup will be respected, so the application shouldn’t rely on them."
Being able to encode markdown-like emphasis in utterances would be very nice for example "Good *luck*, 🤞"
and have the *
be translated into an emphasis. Then we could also use this to add tonality to the emoji expansion.
I've created issue #65 for this as I think it's a bigger task.
@pixelblend Are you happy with what's here? think adding emphasis is another task?
This replaces emoji in text sent to our speech service with the emoji's description. The expanded text is then sent on to the speech server to be spoken.
The
emoji-describe
module is used to do the replacement. Is uses the name of the emoji from the unicode standard.For example: "Good luck 🤞"
Is expanded to: "Good luck hand with index and middle fingers crossed"
It will also expand skin tone variations based on the same language that Apple uses:
For example: "Good luck 👏🏽"
Is expanded to: "Good luck clapping hands sign with medium skin tone"
Disabling emoji replacement
The emoji expansion can be disabled by sending a message with a payload containing
{ replaceEmoji: false }
.