Laughter for Aura Text-to-Speech

[chromagic-development]

Is there currently a way to introduce laughter for Aura voices or is this a Feature Request? I would like to explore generating laughter with the voice models after classifying or creating humor in a conversation.

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[jpvajda]

@chromagic-development There isn't a way to do that yet with our TTS Models, but I did convert this to a Feature Request. What are you trying to do? I am curious. 😄

[chromagic-development]

I have been tinkering with a voice assistant project that also integrates a LLM (currently, ChatGPT) and I would like the option to emote laughter during conversations. Your excellent TTS models are already capable of vocalizations such as “um” and pauses, so this feature would simply add another option to the repertoire for natural sounding speech interactions.

[jpvajda]

I'm adding Our PM of TTS to this thread. @michellelychan