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# Reading a Sad Poem
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In this demo, I prove that it is possible to have an AI voice talk with emotion, rather than the redundant monotone that exists on all the AI slop posted to social platforms.
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The day I did this, a woman very close and dear to me had passed away. She was my second mother. I called her Ma and she treated me like her own son.
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So the logic I coded I have called the Margie Alogithm.
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It takes a poem, and uses a Large Language Model to break the poem into pieces, and define instructions on how each piece should be read. Example: "Speak in a sad, slow and longing tone.", "Speak in a sad, slow and heartbroken tone." or "Speak in a sad, slow and reserved tone but move to a slow and uplifting tone."
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Each part is given to a Text to Speach AI along with the instructions on how it is to be read. Then all the parts are stitched together into a single audio file. The example for the poem showed here took about 3 minutes in all to process using the OpenAI API accessed from code running on my laptop.
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Here are the words of the poem... In the future I will test this with other poems as well and post them here.
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## If Tomorrow Starts Without Me
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by David M Romano
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When tomorrow starts without me,
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And I'm not there to see,
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If the sun should rise and find your eyes
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all filled with tears for me,
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I wish so much you wouldn't cry
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The way you did today,
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While thinking of the many things,
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We didn't get to say.
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I know how much you love me,
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As much as I love you,
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and each time that you think of me,
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I know you'll miss me too.
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But when tomorrow starts without me,
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Please try to understand,
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That an angel came and called my name,
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And took me by the hand,
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and said my place was ready,
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In heaven far above,
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And that I'd have to leave behind
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All those I dearly love.
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But as I turned to walk away,
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A tear fell from my eye
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For all my life, I'd always thought,
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I didn't want to die.
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I had so much to live for,
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So much left yet to do,
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It seemed almost impossible,
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That I was leaving you.
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I thought of all the yesterdays
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The good ones and the bad,
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I thought of all the love we shared,
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and all the fun we had...
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If I could re-live yesterday
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Just even for a while,
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I'd say good-bye and kiss you
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And maybe see you smile.
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But then I fully realized,
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That this could never be,
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For emptiness and memories,
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would take the place of me.
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And when I thought of worldly things,
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I might miss come tomorrow,
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I thought of you, and when I did,
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My heart was filled with sorrow.
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But when I walked through heaven's gates,
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I felt so much at home...
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When God looked down and smiled at me,
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From His great golden throne.
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He said, 'This is eternity,
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And all I've promised you.'
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Today your life on earth is past,
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But here life starts anew,
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I promise no tomorrow,
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But today will always last,
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And since each day's the same way
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There's no longing for the past.
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You have been so faithful,
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So trusting and so true.
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Though there were times
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You did some things
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You knew you shouldn't do.
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But you have been forgiven
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And now at last you're free.
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So won't you come and take my hand
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And share my life with me?
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So when tomorrow starts without me,
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Don't think we're far apart,
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For every time you think of me,
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I'm right here, in your heart.
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