Voice Acting: Training and Preference Views
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Timed-script, preference-pair and synthetic ranked-take releases. Audio overlaps; not all views trained SFT3. • 9 items • Updated
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The Last Night Watch | You're sitting at your grandmother's bedside in the deep hours of the night. She's slipping in and out of consciousness, and you know this is the last time you'll speak to her. Begin in a state of exhausted numbness—you've been here for days, operating on autopilot, afraid to feel too much. As you hold her hand, someth... | eric_morris_inspired | 6,198 | 0.000035 | Actor wants to use the unconscious as a resource in rehearsal | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
After the Storm | You are an older woman collapsed on the floor after a fiercely passionate encounter. Your body is limp, your posture completely failed—you can barely hold yourself up. Every word is interrupted by heavy, uncontrolled breathing; your voice is breathy, slack, with zero tension. At first, you are overwhelmed by raw, despe... | situation_inspired | 8,394 | 0.000025 | null | POSE | Post-Exertion Collapse | Sexual Lust (very intensely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | an older adult | sit_POSE_slumped_exhausted_09 | null | null | null | null |
The Gristle Blockade | Scene 1: You are an older man, alone in a late-night diner, savoring a rare steak. You chew slowly, eyes half-closed, relishing the texture and the warmth of the grease on your tongue. Your voice is low, gravelly, almost a purr as you mutter about the man across the room who just got the waitress's smile—the one you wa... | extreme_physical | 14,923 | 0.000238 | Choking on Food or Foreign Object / Extreme Breathlessness | null | null | Jealousy/Envy (extremely present), Pride (very intensely present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | an older adult | extreme_BRTH_choking_on_food_or_f_05 | BRTH | Extreme Breathlessness | Choking on Food or Foreign Object | A piece of unchewed meat blocks while eating alone at a late-night diner |
The Unexpected Gift | You're an elderly woman at a casual gathering with strangers—your grandchild's new friends. You feel awkward, out of place, with uncomfortable silences and nervous little laughs. Then one of them hands you a small, handmade gift: a knitted coaster with a crooked smiley face. It's so imperfect it's hilarious, and you're... | situation_inspired | 15,900 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Awkwardness / Strangers | Thankfulness/Gratitude (clearly present), Amusement (extremely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | an elderly person | sit_SOCT_social_awkward_stranger_06 | null | null | null | null |
Waking with Venom | You are an older woman just coming out of sedation after a minor surgery. You hear a familiar voice—someone you have always resented, now sitting beside your bed. At first, your words are thick and wandering, childlike, your mind swimming in fog. You fumble with the blanket, blink slowly, your voice cracking. Then, as ... | situation_inspired | 5,392 | 0.000025 | null | SUBST | Post-Anesthesia / Waking From Sedation | Sourness (slightly present), Malevolence/Malice (extremely present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | an older adult | sit_SUBST_subst_anesthesia_waking_02 | null | null | null | null |
Laughing Through Tears as You Toast Your Ex at Their Wedding | You're giving a speech at your ex-love's wedding, and you're genuinely happy for them—and it's killing you. Start with warm laughter, your voice bright with affectionate humor as you tell the story of how you introduced them to their new spouse. Your tone is generous, gracious, full of real joy for their happiness. But... | existing_challenge_inspired | 9,242 | 0.000019 | Calling to Break Up and Trying Not to Cry | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Scent of Betrayal | You are kneeling at your Dominant's feet, your voice soft and breathy, filled with adoration as you whisper how much you trust them. But as you lean closer, you catch a strange scent—perfume that isn't yours. The realization hits you: they've been with someone else. Your voice fractures, rising in pitch with disbelief,... | situation_inspired | 14,810 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Dom/Sub Power Exchange | Affection (very intensely present), Disgust (very intensely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | an older adult | sit_SOCT_social_dom_sub_dynamic_13 | null | null | null | null |
Protector's Collapse: When Love Cannot Save | You're trying to protect someone you love fiercely—your child, sibling, or partner—from something you cannot stop: illness, danger, their own self-destruction, or forces beyond your control. Start with fierce, almost aggressive protectiveness: 'I will NOT let this happen to you. Do you hear me? I will fight this.' Your... | existing_challenge_inspired | 10,121 | 0.000019 | ASMR Gone Wrong: Increasingly Agitated Whisperer | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Midnight Call | You're lying on your bedroom carpet, phone pressed to your ear, the soft fuzz of the rug against your cheek. It's past 1 a.m., and you're bone-tired, your voice thick with exhaustion as you murmur to a friend who keeps talking. Midway through, you hear something they say that finally lands—a silly joke or a shared memo... | situation_inspired | 3,334 | 0.000025 | null | ENVI | Carpeted Bedroom | Fatigue/Exhaustion (clearly present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a young adult | sit_ENVI_env_bedroom_carpeted_09 | null | null | null | null |
The Last Time I Raise My Voice | You are a 16-year-old girl, and you've just found out your younger brother has been stealing money from your mom's purse to buy vape pens for his friends. You're heartbroken, not angry. You called him into your room, and you're sitting on the edge of your bed, hands shaking, trying to keep your voice low and steady bec... | situation_inspired | 2,941 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Scolding / Disciplining | Distress (extremely present), Affection (very intensely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a teenager | sit_SOCT_social_scolding_discipline_04 | null | null | null | null |
The Locker Room Crack | You're a young man recovering from vocal cord nodules, standing in a gym locker room after a workout. Your voice is chronically hoarse, cracking unpredictably into a breathy whisper, and you're hyper-aware of how your hyper-masculine tone now sounds fragile. You start by teasing your best friend about his new haircut—a... | situation_inspired | 17,133 | 0.000025 | null | HLTH | Vocal Nodules / Cord Damage | Teasing (clearly present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | a young adult | sit_HLTH_hlth_vocal_nodules_16 | null | null | null | null |
The Numb Goodbye | You're an older woman sitting in your car outside the dentist's office, your mouth still half-frozen from the novocaine. You're staring at a photo on your phone of your late partner, taken years ago at a beach. Your lips can't quite form the B's and P's—you feel a little drool on your chin and wipe it with your sleeve.... | situation_inspired | 4,812 | 0.000025 | null | HLTH | Post-Dental Work (Numbed) | Contemplation (extremely present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | an older adult | sit_HLTH_hlth_dental_numbed_19 | null | null | null | null |
Grief with Laughter | Youre at a close friends funeral, and memories of them flood you with laughter. Try to hold it back let the audience hear your voice tremble as laughter and tears collide. Keep switching between moments of somber reverence and spontaneous laughter, as though unable to control the flood of memories. Its an emotional rol... | laions_got_talent | 4,178 | 0.000514 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Last Slur | You are an older man sitting in your car after a dentist appointment, jaw still numb. You're exhausted—it's been a long, painful procedure. You're trying to call your adult child to leave a voicemail, but your numbed lips keep betraying your words. At first, you're annoyed and focused on just getting the words out clea... | situation_inspired | 10,367 | 0.000025 | null | HLTH | Post-Dental Work (Numbed) | Fatigue/Exhaustion (very intensely present), Concentration (extremely present), Longing (very intensely present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | an older adult | sit_HLTH_hlth_dental_numbed_18 | null | null | null | null |
Your Abuser Texting You Out of the Blue | You see their name and your nervous system spikes. Your voice reading the message is shaky, higher. 'I'm doing fine actually,' careful and distant. They keep texting and your voice becomes defensive. 'Please don't contact me anymore,' delivered with effort. Include something they say pulling at old attachment and your ... | haiku_batch | 11,687 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Door You Can't Walk Through | You're standing outside your child's room—they've overdosed, or attempted suicide, or been in an accident—and the doctors have just told you there's nothing more they can do. You're on the phone with someone, maybe your ex, maybe your parent, trying to explain what's happening. Start with shock—voice tight, high, breat... | existing_challenge_inspired | 6,534 | 0.000019 | Admitting You Don't Want Your Life Anymore | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Precipice | You are an older woman, deeply infatuated with your partner, in the middle of an intimate moment where they are teasing you with edging. You start light and breathy, giggling and praising them, your voice climbing with pleasure. But as they stop you repeatedly, your frustration builds. Your words become broken, pleadin... | situation_inspired | 12,384 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Edging / Orgasm Denial | Pain (slightly present), Infatuation (extremely present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | an older adult | sit_ACTV_edging_orgasm_denial_11 | null | null | null | null |
Walking Barefoot Through Shallow, Cool Water | Step into the shallow water, feeling the cool, smooth ripples move around your feet. Describe the sensation as each step sends a gentle splash, the way the water soothes your skin and shifts with each movement. Speak with a tone of quiet exhilaration, as if the refreshing coolness connects you to the natural flow of th... | laions_got_talent | 2,869 | 0.000514 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
I Told You Not to Touch | You are a child, bleeding from a deep wound on your arm after someone ignored your warnings. You start in a corner, trembling with anger and disgust, your voice high and sharp as you spit out your words. But the blood is pooling, cold sweat breaks, and your legs give way. As you sink to the floor, your voice fades — ea... | situation_inspired | 18,165 | 0.000025 | null | PAIN | Open Wound / Bleeding | Anger (slightly present), Disgust (very intensely present), Fatigue/Exhaustion (extremely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a child | sit_PAIN_pain_wound_bleeding_00 | null | null | null | null |
Capsized Breath, Burning Swim | You are sitting in a kayak, perfectly still on calm water. Feel the sun on your shoulders, the gentle rock of the hull, and the slow rhythm of your own breathing. You whisper a line of longing to yourself, something soft and intimate. CUT TO: The kayak flips without warning. You are underwater, lungs already burning, t... | extreme_physical | 16,829 | 0.000238 | Sprint & Explosive Effort / Extreme Physical Tension & Exertion | null | null | Anger (slightly present), Longing (clearly present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | a middle-aged adult | extreme_TENS_sprint_&_explosive_e_07 | TENS | Extreme Physical Tension & Exertion | Sprint & Explosive Effort | Climbing out of a capsizing kayak and swimming hard for shore |
Confronting Your Lover About the Affair You've Been Pretending Not to Know About | Begin with eerie calm, your voice almost conversational: 'I know about her. I've known for three months.' Let the words hang there, deadly quiet. Describe one specific moment when you knew—finding a receipt, a text notification, the way they said a certain name—your voice growing sharper, more precise with pain. Then l... | existing_challenge_inspired | 9,895 | 0.000019 | Asking Your Parent for Money While Ashamed | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Protective Fury of Powerlessness | Someone you love has been hurt, and you're consumed by fierce, helpless rage. Start with your whole body shaking, voice low and dangerous: 'Tell me who did this.' Feel the rage building in your chest like pressure, your voice rising with volcanic intensity: 'I will destroy them—I swear to God—' But then you look at the... | existing_challenge_inspired | 5,708 | 0.000019 | Acting Bravely | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Splitting the Question | You're a child alone in the backyard, chopping wood for the first time. The axe feels heavy, your arms ache, and you're confused—why did Dad leave? Each swing is a question you can't answer. Speak only during the wind-up or as you pause to catch your breath, letting the grunt and crack of the wood punctuate your words.... | situation_inspired | 9,618 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Chopping Wood / Axe Work | Confusion (very intensely present), Concentration (slightly present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | a child | sit_ACTV_chopping_wood_19 | null | null | null | null |
What I Never Told You in Daylight | It's 3 AM. You're lying next to someone you love, and they're asleep. You're whispering a confession they can't hear—something you're terrified to say when they're awake. Begin with your voice barely audible, testing the words in the darkness. Let the safety of their sleep give you permission to be completely honest. T... | eric_morris_inspired | 546 | 0.000035 | An actor has difficulty trusting their impulses enough to make the first committed expression | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Static Between Us | You're a teenager on a phone call meant to be erotic, but you're distracted by a faint disgust that creeps in as you speak. Start with a low, breathy, deliberately seductive tone — narrating your imagined touch and her responses. Let your voice slow, become heavier with each pause. Midway, your interest wavers: a sligh... | situation_inspired | 19,023 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Phone Sex / Audio Erotica | Disgust (slightly present), Interest (slightly present), Disappointment (slightly present) | a man with a strongly masculinized voice | a teenager | sit_SOCT_social_phone_sex_19 | null | null | null | null |
The Lost Key Under the Porch | You are an elderly man, stiff and aching, squatting down to reach under the porch for the spare house key you dropped hours ago. Your knees crack, your breath comes in short, strained grunts as you strain your arm into the dark space. Start with hopeful murmurs—'Almost got it, just a little further'—your voice pinched ... | situation_inspired | 19,076 | 0.000025 | null | POSE | Deep Squat | Hope/Optimism (clearly present), Relief (extremely present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | an elderly person | sit_POSE_squatting_deep_04 | null | null | null | null |
Storm Breaking | You're a parent who just found your child in danger—they're safe now, but you nearly lost them. You start with explosive, uncontrolled fury: 'What were you thinking?! Do you have any idea what—' Your voice is shaking with rage, loud and fierce. But mid-tirade, the terror underneath breaks through. Your voice cracks. Th... | existing_challenge_inspired | 5,862 | 0.000019 | Arousal Building | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Wait for the Bus | You are in a job interview, sitting across from a hiring manager. You've just received a text that your child's school bus is running late, and you need to pick them up in 20 minutes. Your voice starts with rehearsed, careful answers—over-enunciated, shallow breath, polite agreement nods. As you speak, your mind drifts... | situation_inspired | 3,814 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Job Interview (The Applicant) | Concentration (clearly present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | a child | sit_SOCT_social_job_interview_14 | null | null | null | null |
The Last Word I’ll Never Say | You’re a teenage girl sitting on your bed after just ending a relationship over the phone. The phone is still in your hand, screen dark. You feel a flicker of triumph—you finally said what needed to be said, you walked away first. But that triumph is already crumbling into a hollow sadness that makes your chest ache. S... | situation_inspired | 16,837 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Heartbreak / Romantic Devastation | Triumph (slightly present), Sadness (slightly present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | a teenager | sit_SOCT_social_heartbreak_13 | null | null | null | null |
Smoke in My Lungs | You are a little girl with a high, delicate voice trapped in your bedroom as smoke pours in from a fire downstairs. You feel a bitter sting of disappointment—maybe someone promised to protect you and didn't—but the confusion of coughing, eyes burning, and the room spinning is overwhelming. Start with a resentful accusa... | situation_inspired | 12,913 | 0.000025 | null | CLMT | Smoke-Filled Room / Fire | Disappointment (slightly present), Bitterness (extremely present), Confusion (very intensely present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | a child | sit_CLMT_clmt_smoke_filled_room_05 | null | null | null | null |
Thank You for Breaking My Heart | You're saying goodbye to someone you deeply love but can't be with anymore. Begin with laughter—genuine, warm, remembering something beautiful you shared. But even as you laugh, tears are coming, and your voice starts to shake with the contradiction of joy and grief existing simultaneously. Tell them, with brutal hones... | existing_challenge_inspired | 2,650 | 0.000019 | Accidental Insult | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Whispering to Someone Who Can't Hear You Anymore | You're sitting beside someone in a coma—a lover, a best friend—and the doctors say they might still hear you. Your voice starts tender but guarded, talking about mundane things, safe things. Then you allow yourself to say what you never said when they were awake: a confession of love, or hurt, or the truth about someth... | existing_challenge_inspired | 11,269 | 0.000019 | Being Told You're Not Good Enough | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Life Changing | Something has changed someone's life fundamentally. Their voice carries the before and after. Before the change, there's a weariness or limitation. Then something shifts. The voice shifts. The person is describing their life now, and it's unrecognizable from the life before. They're still themselves, but transformed. T... | haiku_batch | 17,739 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Rave Repulsion | You are an older woman with a hyper-feminized voice at a crowded, pounding rave. You’ve been dancing hard for ten minutes, your body moving in a steady bounce to the bass, your voice trembling with each step. You start in fear—convinced a man in the crowd is tracking your every move, your heart racing. Then you see him... | situation_inspired | 11,892 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Vigorous Dancing / Rave | Fear (clearly present), Disgust (clearly present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | an older adult | sit_ACTV_dancing_vigorous_02 | null | null | null | null |
Thin Air | You're a teenage boy at a high-altitude campsite, your chest tight, head pounding with every heartbeat. You've been teasing your buddy for days about being a wimp, but now the altitude sickness is crushing you. Start with that same cocky, teasing tone—but hear your own breath hitching, the words coming out slower than ... | situation_inspired | 9,619 | 0.000025 | null | HLTH | Altitude Sickness | Teasing (very intensely present), Sadness (clearly present), Helplessness (slightly present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | a teenager | sit_HLTH_hlth_altitude_sickness_14 | null | null | null | null |
The Last Lullaby | You are a middle-aged woman sitting in a dim, quiet hospital room late at night, watching over your sleeping mother who is very ill. You are exhausted but fighting sleep because you promised you'd stay awake. As you sit in the uncomfortable chair, the warmth and stillness make your eyes heavy. Start speaking—telling yo... | situation_inspired | 4,790 | 0.000025 | null | FATG | Drifting Off / Nodding Off | Sadness (very intensely present), Pain (slightly present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a middle-aged adult | sit_FATG_fatg_falling_asleep_17 | null | null | null | null |
The Night That Never Ends | You are an elderly woman, sleep-deprived for over 48 hours while caring for your ill husband. A home health aide has just arrived. You sit at the kitchen table with cold tea, beginning with bitter exhaustion: resentful, sarcastic, voice frayed. Halfway through, your gaze snags on a dusty photograph on the fridge—and yo... | situation_inspired | 13,517 | 0.000025 | null | FATG | Multi-Day Sleep Deprivation (48h+) | Fatigue/Exhaustion (extremely present), Bitterness (extremely present), Interest (very intensely present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | an elderly person | sit_FATG_fatg_multi_day_deprivation_13 | null | null | null | null |
The Burning House of Yes | You're standing in an empty room, speaking to someone who isn't there, reliving the moment you said yes to something that destroyed you—or saved you, or both. Begin in stillness, voice controlled, explaining your choice rationally. But as you justify your decision, let your body start to respond: heat rising, breath sh... | eric_morris_inspired | 14,941 | 0.000035 | Actor wants to understand the full integrated system from Morris's perspective | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Last Card | You are a proud, tough man who has just heard your partner say they're leaving for good. You're standing in the doorway of your apartment, blocking their path but not touching them. You start speaking fast, your voice high and shaky, desperate to stop them—pleading with an edge of panic. But as you go, you realize you'... | situation_inspired | 17,519 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Pleading / Begging | Longing (very intensely present), Affection (slightly present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | a middle-aged adult | sit_SOCT_social_plea_desperate_07 | null | null | null | null |
After the Crash | You've just survived something physically traumatic - a car accident, a fall, a violent encounter. Your body is flooded with adrenaline; you might be shaking, bleeding, in pain. Someone is helping you, checking if you're okay, but you can't quite process their words yet. Begin in pure physical reaction - the shock, the... | eric_morris_inspired | 16,941 | 0.000035 | Actor is falling into result consciousness—going for the emotion of a scene rather than working from the moment | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Broken Man's Last Plea | You are an elderly man, once strong and proud, now frail and desperate. Your son has just told you he's cutting you off, leaving you homeless. You are confused—you didn't see this coming. Fear grips you as the reality sets in. Pain from years of sacrifice and now betrayal. You plead, your voice cracking, breath shaky, ... | situation_inspired | 2,812 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Pleading / Begging | Confusion (clearly present), Fear (extremely present), Pain (clearly present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | an elderly person | sit_SOCT_social_plea_desperate_10 | null | null | null | null |
Flat Gratitude | You are in a dim, quiet bedroom, lying on your back after taking a tranquilizer. Your body feels heavy, your thoughts slow. A child you care for brings you a cup of tea and sits beside you. You begin by staring at the ceiling, speaking in a low, even monotone, contemplating the strange calm inside you—no edge, no worry... | situation_inspired | 4,800 | 0.000025 | null | SUBST | Benzodiazepine / Tranquilizer | Contemplation (clearly present), Emotional Numbness (very intensely present), Thankfulness/Gratitude (clearly present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | a child | sit_SUBST_subst_benzodiazepine_calm_18 | null | null | null | null |
The Visor's Echo | You are an older woman, once known for a sweet, high-pitched voice, now encased in a heavy medieval helmet. You stand alone in a cold, dim chamber, the metal visor clanking each time you speak. At first, bitterness tinges your words as you recall a lifetime of being underestimated for your femininity. But as the weight... | situation_inspired | 7,173 | 0.000025 | null | GEAR | Medieval Helm / Full Visor | Bitterness (slightly present), Pain (slightly present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | an older adult | sit_GEAR_gear_medieval_helm_05 | null | null | null | null |
The Mother Bear Moment | Someone has hurt your child, and you're confronting them with volcanic rage. Begin ferocious—your voice a weapon, protective fury making you dangerous. But mid-confrontation, your child's face flashes in your mind: scared, asking why you weren't there to stop it. The rage shatters into helplessness. Your voice breaks o... | existing_challenge_inspired | 6,755 | 0.000019 | Chaplain Last Rites | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Voices in the Veil | You’re a young woman caught in a sudden sandstorm while walking back from a market. You’ve pulled your scarf over your mouth, but grit still gets through. Through the howling wind, you’re trying to talk to yourself—processing a recent conversation with someone you’re quietly infatuated with, but you realized something ... | situation_inspired | 17,180 | 0.000025 | null | CLMT | Sandstorm / Dust Storm | Infatuation (slightly present), Contemplation (very intensely present), Relief (clearly present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | a young adult | sit_CLMT_clmt_sandstorm_dust_06 | null | null | null | null |
The Last Sack | You are an elderly man, exhausted from a forced march across a muddy field, carrying a heavy sack of grain. At first, every step is a struggle, and you mutter impatiently at the weight, the mud, and the younger ones who should be doing this. But as you near the granary, you realize this may be the last harvest you’ll e... | situation_inspired | 6,988 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Carrying Heavy Load / Forced March | Impatience and Irritability (very intensely present), Confusion (slightly present) | a man with a strongly masculinized voice | an elderly person | sit_ACTV_carrying_load_march_05 | null | null | null | null |
The Hospital Corridor: When the Doctor Says 'We Did Everything We Could' | You're standing in a hospital corridor after losing someone you cannot imagine life without. Start with numb disbelief - your voice flat, almost clinical as you repeat the doctor's words back: 'You did everything you could.' But as you begin to process what forever means, your voice fractures. You're trying to make pla... | existing_challenge_inspired | 2,210 | 0.000019 | After Job Loss: Practical Panic Setting In | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Heirloom That Slips Away | You are an elderly person at a cozy family dinner. As you begin telling a cherished story about an old heirloom, your voice is warm and slightly projected to reach across the table. Midway, you turn to address your granddaughter and your mind goes blank—your voice catches, you pause, shift in your chair. A quiet distre... | situation_inspired | 1,889 | 0.000025 | null | TRGT | Small Group (Dinner Table) | Distress (slightly present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | an elderly person | sit_TRGT_target_small_group_18 | null | null | null | null |
The Secret Gravity Between Us | It's 3 AM, and you're lying in the dark next to someone you've loved silently for years—a best friend, a roommate, someone forbidden. They're asleep. You believe they'll never know how you feel. Begin by whispering your confession into the darkness, your voice barely audible, trembling with fear of being heard. Let you... | eric_morris_inspired | 14,035 | 0.000035 | Actor is emotionally blocked before rehearsal or performance and cannot access deep feeling | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Feeling the First Drops of Rain on a Hot Day | Feeling the first cool raindrops hit your skin, a gentle relief from the heat. Describe the tiny shocks of coolness with each drop, the refreshing sensation of water running over your arms. Speak with a tone of quiet surprise and contentment, as if each drop brings a little thrill, the perfect, cooling relief on a warm... | laions_got_talent | 12,477 | 0.000514 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Lost Key | You are an elderly man, stiff and thick-voiced, bent over trying to pick up the house key that slipped under the car seat. Your diaphragm is crushed, blood rushes to your head, and every word sounds strained and congested. Start by concentrating hard on reaching the key—grunting, swearing under your breath, completely ... | situation_inspired | 9,770 | 0.000025 | null | POSE | Bent Over (Touching Toes) | Amusement (clearly present), Concentration (extremely present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | an elderly person | sit_POSE_bending_waist_07 | null | null | null | null |
The Masked Garden | You are an elderly person, alone in your overgrown vegetable patch after a long illness. You've just pulled the first ripe tomato of the season, and you're so elated you can barely contain it, but you're wearing a surgical mask because your immune system is still weak. Speak to this tomato in your hand, describing its ... | situation_inspired | 5,904 | 0.000025 | null | GEAR | Surgical / Cloth Face Mask | Elation (clearly present), Disgust (slightly present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | an elderly person | sit_GEAR_gear_surgical_mask_18 | null | null | null | null |
The Last Breath in the Closet | You are an elderly person hiding in a cramped, dark closet, your hand pressed hard over your mouth to silence your ragged breathing. The fabric of an old coat scratches your cheek, and your knees ache from crouching. You whisper to yourself, trying to muster the strength to stay quiet, but exhaustion seeps through ever... | situation_inspired | 11,520 | 0.000025 | null | GEAR | Hand Covering Mouth | Fatigue/Exhaustion (extremely present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | an elderly person | sit_GEAR_gear_hand_over_mouth_00 | null | null | null | null |
The Last Count | You are an elderly woman, deeply fatigued, lying over your partner's lap in your dim bedroom. Your body aches from the day, but your heart is full of infatuation. Each strike from their hand makes you gasp sharply, then moan as the sting melts into warmth. You must count out loud, but your voice cracks with exhaustion—... | situation_inspired | 18,107 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Impact Play / Spanking (Receiving) | Fatigue/Exhaustion (extremely present), Infatuation (extremely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | an elderly person | sit_ACTV_impact_play_receiving_15 | null | null | null | null |
Setting a Healthy Boundary | You're setting a boundary with someone you love. Your voice is firm but kind: 'I need to set a boundary here.' You're being clear about what you can and can't accept: 'This is what I need.' Your voice is steady despite their pushback. 'I understand you're unhappy, but I have to do this.' Your voice doesn't waver, even ... | haiku_batch | 15,456 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Ghost of a Kiss | You are an older woman, kissing a partner you've been with for decades. You're feeling emotionally numb, going through the motions mechanically. As the kiss deepens, you catch a familiar scent—his cologne from your early days. It jolts you, a flash of astonishment—you remember the passion you once felt. But the numbnes... | situation_inspired | 6,565 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Kissing / Intimacy | Emotional Numbness (slightly present), Astonishment/Surprise (slightly present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | an older adult | sit_ACTV_kissing_intimate_04 | null | null | null | null |
The Body Remembers Everything | You're alone, and a physical sensation—a scent, a texture, a particular quality of light—has suddenly catapulted you back through time. Begin by describing yourself at age five in present tense: where you are, what you're touching, what's happening to your body. Let the sensory memory be visceral—the feeling of sun on ... | eric_morris_inspired | 11,997 | 0.000035 | 'I'm Five Years Old and I...' Exercise | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Appointment That Won't Cooperate | You are an older woman with a chronic migraine, lying in a dark room with the phone pressed to your ear. Every sound feels like a drill in your skull, so your voice is a fragile whisper—you squint even in the dim light, and your breaths are shallow. You need to cancel a dentist appointment, but the automated system kee... | situation_inspired | 18,839 | 0.000025 | null | PAIN | Migraine / Severe Headache | Impatience and Irritability (clearly present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | an older adult | sit_PAIN_pain_headache_migraine_11 | null | null | null | null |
Gratitude at Your Child's Wedding While Your Heart Breaks | You're giving a speech at your child's wedding, but you're also dying—terminal diagnosis, months left, and they don't know yet. Your voice is warm, full of joy and pride as you toast their future, but underneath everything, your heart is shattering because you won't be there for it. You laugh at funny memories, your vo... | existing_challenge_inspired | 13,060 | 0.000019 | Boss Former Employee | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Packing the Last Box | You are packing up your childhood home—your last time in these rooms before the house is sold. You're determined to be efficient, unsentimental, adult about this. But as you wrap each object, specific details ambush you: the chip on this mug is where you threw it during your worst fight with your brother, this blanket ... | eric_morris_inspired | 34 | 0.000035 | Actor wants a reliable shortcut to specific emotional states in performance | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Guardian at the Gates | You are trying to protect someone you love from a danger only you can see, but they're fighting you, accusing you of controlling them. Start with fierce, almost violent desperation—you're physically trying to hold them back, voice sharp with command. But they don't understand, and as they resist, your certainty begins ... | existing_challenge_inspired | 7,745 | 0.000019 | Calling a Suicide Hotline: Both Sides | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Unlocked Door | You are standing in the doorway of your childhood home, holding a single key that no longer belongs to you. Your car is packed, and you have to leave before the morning light fully breaks. Start with a forced steadiness, describing the weight of the key like it's a foreign object, your voice low but thick. Midway, let ... | situation_inspired | 16,301 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Permanent Goodbye / Final Farewell | Sadness (slightly present), Thankfulness/Gratitude (clearly present), Distress (slightly present) | a man with a strongly masculinized voice | a young adult | sit_SOCT_social_goodbye_permanent_07 | null | null | null | null |
Eighty to Zero, One Hand | You are an elderly woman, proud of your reflexes, driving home at dusk. Scene 1: The road is empty, the air through the cracked window smells like hay. You are humming, one hand loose on the wheel, your other hand resting on your thigh. You feel the vibration of the engine in your bones, the warmth of the sun on your a... | extreme_physical | 12,185 | 0.000238 | Near-Miss Car Accidents / Extreme Surprise & Startle | null | null | Pride (clearly present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | an elderly person | extreme_SHOCK_near-miss_car_accide_04 | SHOCK | Extreme Surprise & Startle | Near-Miss Car Accidents | A sudden blowout at 80 mph that fishtails the car back under control |
Confronting Your Mother in the Kitchen | Your mother is washing dishes. You've come to finally tell her what her silence cost you as a child. Start with controlled fury—you've planned this conversation, you know what you need to say. But as you speak, notice when you're performing your anger versus truly feeling it. When you catch yourself sounding rehearsed ... | eric_morris_inspired | 9,408 | 0.000035 | Actor's impulsive flow is interrupted during a long run or performance; self-consciousness creeping in | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Waiting Room Verdict | You're an older man sitting in a hospital waiting room, elbows on your knees, staring at the floor. You've just been told the doctor will be in with your biopsy results any minute. Speak quietly to yourself, almost a murmur, as you try to brace for the worst. Your voice is compressed from your hunched posture, breath s... | situation_inspired | 18,332 | 0.000025 | null | POSE | Elbows on Knees (The Brooder) | Fear (clearly present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | an older adult | sit_POSE_sitting_lean_forward_03 | null | null | null | null |
The Crack in the Microphone | You are an elderly politician at a town hall, speaking into a PA system that buzzes and crackles. You begin with the practiced, booming confidence of someone who's done this a thousand times, your voice projecting with authority. But as you speak, a glitch in the sound system throws you off — you pause, squint at the c... | situation_inspired | 11,700 | 0.000025 | null | TRGT | Public Speaker (PA System) | Doubt (extremely present) | a man with a strongly masculinized voice | an elderly person | sit_TRGT_target_public_pa_04 | null | null | null | null |
The Splintered Pride | Scene 1: You are a child, alone in a warm kitchen at dusk, humming softly as you admire the intricate pattern of a fresh splinter of wood you pulled from a fence—a tiny, perfect sliver, now held up to the dim light. You are proud of your find, feeling the smooth, sharp edge against your thumb. Speak with a soft, awed w... | extreme_physical | 17,504 | 0.000238 | Impalement & Penetrating Wounds / Extreme Physical Pain | null | null | Pride (clearly present), Disgust (clearly present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a child | extreme_PAIN_impalement_&_penetra_09 | PAIN | Extreme Physical Pain | Impalement & Penetrating Wounds | Wood splinter, fist-sized, through the forearm from an explosion |
The Ceiling Spiders | You are an elderly woman in a musty, dimly lit attic, searching for a lost photograph. As you lift your chin high to squint at the rafters, the stretch in your throat makes your voice go thin and tight. Your eye catches something horrifying: a wriggling cluster of large, dusty spiders—directly above, inches from your h... | situation_inspired | 15,298 | 0.000025 | null | POSE | Looking Up (Chin High) | Disgust (extremely present), Astonishment/Surprise (extremely present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | an elderly person | sit_POSE_head_chin_up_09 | null | null | null | null |
Old Couple's Morning Routine: 40 Years of Love | Two elderly voices, performing the choreography of a decades-long morning routine. He makes the coffee. She reads the headlines aloud. They bicker gently about the toast. The dialogue should be worn smooth by repetition — they finish each other's sentences, argue about nothing with zero stakes. Let the love be visible ... | voicenet_extension | 8,570 | 0.000714 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Steam and Stillness | You are a teenager in a tiled shower, the hot water pounding on your back. Start by feeling the pure pleasure of the heat—let out a satisfied sigh, maybe a little moan, your voice amplified by the bright reverb. Then, as the water continues, let the ecstasy drain away into a creeping numbness. You stop moving, just sta... | situation_inspired | 11,999 | 0.000025 | null | ENVI | Tiled Bathroom / Shower | Pleasure/Ecstasy (clearly present), Emotional Numbness (clearly present), Contemplation (extremely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a teenager | sit_ENVI_env_bathroom_tiled_06 | null | null | null | null |
The Winning Catch | You are a 10-year-old boy calling your dad from a payphone after your little league championship game. You're still buzzing with excitement, your voice slightly louder than normal to reach him across the line, using clear enunciation and upward inflections to make sure he's still there. You start by proudly describing ... | situation_inspired | 10,208 | 0.000025 | null | TRGT | Telephonic / Remote Human | Pride (extremely present), Pain (slightly present) | a man with a moderately masculinized voice | a child | sit_TRGT_target_telephonic_remote_18 | null | null | null | null |
Summit's Confession | You stand alone on a narrow ledge at the summit, wind ripping past your ears, barely enough air to fill your lungs. You start by muttering to yourself, ashamed of your earlier failure—the slip, the mistake that almost made you turn back, the cowardice you can still taste. Your voice is thin, broken by the wind, sometim... | situation_inspired | 7,371 | 0.000025 | null | ENVI | Mountain Summit / Cliff Edge | Shame (slightly present), Triumph (slightly present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | a young adult | sit_ENVI_env_mountain_peak_00 | null | null | null | null |
The Confession in Darkness | You're whispering a confession to someone sleeping beside you—or perhaps to someone who can't hear you anymore. Begin barely audibly: 'I need to tell you something while I still can.' Your voice should be intimate, fragile, like speaking might shatter something precious. 'Every day with you has been so beautiful it sca... | existing_challenge_inspired | 259 | 0.000019 | Beauty Overwhelming | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Final Hold | You are an elderly man in a yoga class, holding a deep lunge pose that has gone on far too long. Your legs are shaking violently, each breath a controlled rasp through your throat. As the instructor holds the pose for what feels like an eternity, you mutter a teasing joke to yourself about your limbs being on strike. W... | situation_inspired | 326 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Power Yoga / Intense Hold Poses | Teasing (slightly present), Relief (extremely present), Thankfulness/Gratitude (clearly present) | a man with a moderately masculinized voice | an elderly person | sit_ACTV_yoga_power_hold_13 | null | null | null | null |
Passion Expressed | You're expressing passion that's been building—years of desire focused on this one person, this one moment. Your voice is forceful, intense, but controlled: 'I want you.' Your partner responds equally: 'I'm here.' You're both fully present. Your voice becomes less verbal and more vocal—sighs, moans, gasps that are genu... | haiku_batch | 7,182 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Fantasy: Oracle Delivers a Prophecy They Knows Will Be Misinterpreted | Speaking prophecy to the king, your oracle voice is ancient and layered. But you see the future branching—your words will be misunderstood in a way that costs lives. Your voice continues with prophetic gravity while you're aware of the catastrophe you're enabling through language. You're forced to speak knowing you can... | haiku_batch | 17,620 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Teacher: Celebrating a Student's Unexpected Success | A student you weren't sure would make it has succeeded beyond expectation. Your voice carries genuine pride and warmth: 'I knew you had potential but look what you've done.' You're celebrating their specificity, not just success. Include the moment where emotion breaks through—you care about these people. Your voice be... | haiku_batch | 3,721 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Still Body in the Chair | Scene 1: You're walking down a quiet hallway, humming a forgotten tune, keys swinging from your finger. You unlock the office door with a soft click, scent of old paper and dust, and step inside, stretching your neck. Speak the line, 'Almost forgot my glasses, you know how it is, always leaving them somewhere.' Your vo... | extreme_physical | 8,026 | 0.000238 | Discovering a Body or Catastrophic Scene / Extreme Surprise & Startle | null | null | Contempt (extremely present), Confusion (slightly present), Sadness (extremely present) | a man with a strongly masculinized voice | an elderly person | extreme_SHOCK_discovering_a_body_o_08 | SHOCK | Extreme Surprise & Startle | Discovering a Body or Catastrophic Scene | Discovering a colleague slumped over a desk unresponsive in a locked office |
Slave Rebellion Leader | You're rallying enslaved people to rise up, and your voice carries the weight of knowing some of them won't survive what you're calling them toward. You're performing courage, but your voice trembles with the responsibility of it. You speak with cadences that echo your people's traditions—rhythm and poetry underneath t... | haiku_batch | 774 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Tongues of Fire | You are a young man at a tent revival, your whole body trembling. You've been weeping over your father's death, feeling abandoned. But as the congregation prays over you, you feel a surge of something beyond yourself—a fierce pride in your heritage, in being chosen. Start with choked, tearful confession, your voice cra... | situation_inspired | 5,699 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Religious Ecstasy / Spiritual Rapture | Sadness (very intensely present), Pride (extremely present) | a man with a hyper-masculinized voice | a young adult | sit_SOCT_social_religious_ecstasy_17 | null | null | null | null |
The Burning Room | You're in the shower, water scalding hot, after discovering your lover's betrayal through explicit messages on their phone. The physical sensation of burning water mirrors your internal state. Begin with controlled rage—scrubbing your skin hard, trying to wash away what you know. Let the physical intensity unlock somet... | eric_morris_inspired | 9,177 | 0.000035 | Actor feels everything but cannot express it (expressive insecurity) | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
What You Never Told Me | You're confronting your father who abandoned the family fifteen years ago. You've rehearsed this moment—you were going to be cold, controlled, make him feel small. But when you start speaking, something else happens. Begin by trying to reach him with the good memories—remember how he taught you to ride a bike, the way ... | eric_morris_inspired | 18,488 | 0.000035 | Actor is playing a one-dimensional character or character work feels superficial—expressing the emotion rather than creating the impetus | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Wrong Volume | You're a teenager with hearing loss from an injury, just fitted with a new hearing aid that your friend is adjusting. You start by teasing them about being too loud, a bit of contempt in your tone for their over-caution. But as you fumble with volume — your own voice too loud, sibilants hissing, pitch wavering — shame ... | situation_inspired | 13,793 | 0.000025 | null | HLTH | Speaker Has Hearing Loss | Teasing (clearly present), Shame (slightly present), Contempt (slightly present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | a teenager | sit_HLTH_hlth_hearing_loss_speaker_04 | null | null | null | null |
The Mask Slips | You are a retired fire chief, a man who has always been the rock for your family. Your adult daughter has gently asked if you're okay for the third time. Begin with irritation, snapping at her to stop fussing. As you try to brush her off, the words catch — you feel the sudden crack in your voice, a wave of embarrassmen... | situation_inspired | 10,503 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Admitting Vulnerability / "I'm Not Okay" | Helplessness (very intensely present), Embarrassment (clearly present), Impatience and Irritability (clearly present) | a man with a strongly masculinized voice | an older adult | sit_SOCT_social_vulnerable_admission_05 | null | null | null | null |
Calling 911 About Someone You Love | You're on the phone with 911 and in the background is someone you love who is unresponsive or choking or seizing. Your voice is panicked, jumping octaves. The dispatcher needs information and you're trying to provide it but your voice is cracking with terror. You're giving their name and your voice almost doesn't work.... | haiku_batch | 7,394 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Thank-You Note That Stings | You're a middle-aged man standing in your kitchen, sorting through a stack of mail. Your partner has just left for work after a tense morning—they forgot to do something you specifically asked them to do yesterday, and you feel a familiar ache of disappointment. You pick up a gift card they left on the counter for you,... | situation_inspired | 8,766 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Passive-Aggressive | Disappointment (clearly present), Thankfulness/Gratitude (slightly present) | a man with a moderately masculinized voice | a middle-aged adult | sit_SOCT_social_passive_aggressive_03 | null | null | null | null |
Discovering Purpose | Everything you've lived suddenly aligns. Your voice becomes clarified: 'This is why. This is what all of it was for.' Breathing deepens. Physical: you feel centered. 'I'm not lost anymore.' Vocal tone is almost musical with certainty. 'My purpose is to—' and it lands as fact, not hope. By the end, you're speaking from ... | haiku_batch | 10,951 | 0.000143 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Lukewarm Surprise | You're a young adult at a small party, taking a big, hopeful bite of a homemade cake a friend baked just for you—you've been hyping it up all afternoon. The first mouthful is a shock: it's dry, flavorless, and crumbly, but you're stuck with a full mouth. As you chew (let the wet smacks and muffled words happen), you st... | situation_inspired | 3,633 | 0.000025 | null | ACTV | Eating (Soft/Bolus) | Disappointment (very intensely present), Embarrassment (very intensely present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | a young adult | sit_ACTV_eating_soft_14 | null | null | null | null |
Dictating the Accident | You're a teenage girl dictating a report for your parents' work software while they're out. You're slightly buzzed from your first few sips of a hidden cocktail you found in the fridge. The words come out fast and robotic like 'period' and 'new paragraph,' but as you describe a crash you almost had on your bike today, ... | situation_inspired | 4,252 | 0.000025 | null | TRGT | Dictation (Recording for Transcribing) | Sourness (slightly present), Intoxication/Altered States (very intensely present), Astonishment/Surprise (extremely present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | a teenager | sit_TRGT_target_dictation_19 | null | null | null | null |
The Last Promise in the Dark | You are an elderly woman, deeply intoxicated, standing over the man who just betrayed you after a night of desperate passion. Your body is trembling with a blind, volcanic rage — you have just smashed a bottle against the wall, and glass shards litter the floor. Begin with a low, husky growl, your voice slurred and thi... | situation_inspired | 811 | 0.000025 | null | SOCT | Blind Fury / Uncontrolled Rage | Sexual Lust (very intensely present), Hope/Optimism (clearly present), Intoxication/Altered States (clearly present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | an elderly person | sit_SOCT_social_fury_rage_06 | null | null | null | null |
The Nighttime Story | You are a mother, deeply sleep-deprived, reading a bedtime story to your young child. Your voice is hollow and compressed, the words almost slipping away. Start with strained concentration—forcing your eyes to stay on the page, losing your place, catching yourself. As you continue, the child's small hand on your arm pu... | situation_inspired | 17,243 | 0.000025 | null | FATG | Chronic Insomnia / Long-Term Sleep Debt | Concentration (extremely present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a child | sit_FATG_fatg_insomnia_chronic_03 | null | null | null | null |
The Body Remembers | You are dancing alone in your room for the first time in years. Your body carries shame—about aging, about weight, about not being what society says you should be. Start moving with apology in your limbs, hunched, small, as if your body is something to hide. Let the movement itself teach you. As the music plays, feel y... | eric_morris_inspired | 3,727 | 0.000035 | Actor's ego-state is in the way — feeling not good enough, too old, not talented enough | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
Don't You Come Any Closer | You are a middle-aged woman standing inches away from someone who has been stalking you for weeks. Your voice is loud, dry, and tight—no reverb because you're so close. Start with a slight quiver of fear in your throat, a tiny break on the first word, but as you speak, that fear hardens into cold, steely resolve. Your ... | situation_inspired | 3,876 | 0.000025 | null | TRGT | Confrontational (In-Your-Face) | Fear (slightly present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | a middle-aged adult | sit_TRGT_target_confrontational_face_08 | null | null | null | null |
The Wake of Silence | You are standing alone in a vast, open field at dusk, the wind tugging at your hair and clothes. You've just walked away from a gathering where you were publicly shamed for something you did—something you still cannot fully feel sorry for, though you know you should. Start by speaking outward, the words thin and quickl... | situation_inspired | 5,796 | 0.000025 | null | ENVI | Open Field / Plain | Shame (clearly present), Emotional Numbness (very intensely present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | a middle-aged adult | sit_ENVI_env_open_field_08 | null | null | null | null |
Freezer Shock After Oven Blast | You are a young woman in a high-stakes cooking competition, seconds after pulling a blazing hot sheet pan from a 500-degree oven. In Scene 1, you exhale slowly, feeling the heat radiate off your skin, a sensual awareness of your flushed cheeks and the steam rising from your arms—your voice is soft, breathy, almost sati... | extreme_physical | 14,525 | 0.000238 | Thermal Shock Contrast / Extreme Temperature Shock | null | null | Pleasure/Ecstasy (slightly present), Emotional Numbness (extremely present), Anger (slightly present) | a woman with a strongly feminized voice | a young adult | extreme_TEMP_thermal_shock_contra_09 | TEMP | Extreme Temperature Shock | Thermal Shock Contrast | Cooking competition contestant reaching into a commercial freezer immediately after oven work |
The Echo of Rescue | You are a young woman who has been lost in a deep cave for hours, cold and terrified. Suddenly, you see the flicker of a rescuer's headlamp far down the tunnel. You begin to call out, your voice shaky and desperate, almost lost in the deep, booming reverb of the cave. As the light draws closer and you realize they’ve f... | situation_inspired | 9,674 | 0.000025 | null | ENVI | Cave / Underground Tunnel | Thankfulness/Gratitude (extremely present) | a woman with a moderately feminized voice | a young adult | sit_ENVI_env_cave_underground_07 | null | null | null | null |
The Unsaid Echo | You are standing on a mountaintop at dawn, your boots planted on the edge of a cliff. The wind is relentless, whipping your hair and jacket, and the thin air makes every word a struggle. You're shouting to someone far below—a friend you're leaving behind, maybe forever, but they can't hear you from this distance. Start... | situation_inspired | 18,896 | 0.000025 | null | ENVI | Mountain Summit / Cliff Edge | Longing (very intensely present) | a person with an androgynous, gender-neutral voice | a young adult | sit_ENVI_env_mountain_peak_03 | null | null | null | null |
The Gilded Bone | You are a middle-aged woman with a deliberately soft, feminine voice, sitting alone at a candlelit table. You savor a perfectly cooked fish fillet, occasionally dabbing your mouth with a napkin. You are emotionally numb—the dinner is a ritual of composure, not joy; disappointment has settled in your chest like a stone.... | extreme_physical | 10,165 | 0.000238 | Choking on Food or Foreign Object / Extreme Breathlessness | null | null | Emotional Numbness (very intensely present), Disappointment (very intensely present) | a woman with a hyper-feminized voice | a middle-aged adult | extreme_BRTH_choking_on_food_or_f_03 | BRTH | Extreme Breathlessness | Choking on Food or Foreign Object | Bone from a fish fillet lodges transversely in the throat during a solo meal |
The Inheritance of Silence | You're confronting your father about why he never told you he was proud of you—not once in thirty years. Start with controlled anger, the kind that's been rehearsed in your head for months. But as you speak, let yourself stumble into the real questions underneath: did he even see you? Do you even know who he is? Allow ... | eric_morris_inspired | 2,069 | 0.000035 | An actor is avoiding daily practice due to tedium or lack of immediate reward | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
The Kitchen at 2 AM | You confront your teenage child who has just come home after disappearing for three days. Start with volcanic rage—screaming, pacing, your voice ragged with fury and fear. You're listing every rule they broke, every lie they told, building to an explosion. Then, mid-accusation, you catch sight of something in their fac... | eric_morris_inspired | 18,260 | 0.000035 | Actor has tried a choice but it isn't producing the desired emotional response | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
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Acting Challenge Dataset
19,247 English acting challenges for constructing expressive speech tasks and synthetic data. This is a published inspiration and training resource, not the Voice Acting Arena evaluation set. A challenge specifies a dramatic or physical performance problem, usually before any exact spoken script has been written. A downstream director model can turn it into a scene, dialogue, and model-specific TTS directions; a generator can produce several takes; human or audio-model feedback can select takes for best-of-N sampling or later training. The same scene concepts may also be useful for prompting other generative media, but no video-generation evaluation is claimed here.
This repository republishes a pinned snapshot of the challenge pool from Voice-Acting-Pipeline, with a viewer-friendly JSONL file, source-family sampling weights, a small deterministic family-balanced reference view, and the source taxonomies. The source snapshot is commit e3b0d5281558f7f73e1118c6a9b4c149bb8c0621; the source master JSON has SHA-256 7ef759b639ef3646ca8a985664747e37ad93e4ab989f97dd8cece4f5201ceb6f.
This dataset is indexed in the Humaneness Voice: Research Artifacts and Voice Acting: Training and Preference Views collections.
What is in the release
Source family (source) |
Rows | Construction and role |
|---|---|---|
laions_got_talent |
278 | The original LAION's Got Talent acting tasks, with varied emotional and situational contexts. This is not the television programme Britain's Got Talent. |
haiku_batch |
1,000 | AI-generated challenges intended to broaden thematic coverage. The source documentation does not identify a reliable historical generator model. |
voicenet_extension |
200 | Scenarios built around VoiceNet vocal-attribute dimensions. |
eric_morris_inspired |
4,030 | Five generated challenges per item in an 806-item historical snapshot of concepts, techniques, exercises, and recommendations from an Eric Morris acting-method knowledge base. inspired_by names the source concept; the seven books and their extracted text are not redistributed here. |
existing_challenge_inspired |
7,390 | Five contextual variants for each of the 1,478 original challenges (278 + 1,000 + 200). These are deliberate descendants, not independent human-authored seeds. |
situation_inspired |
5,749 | Up to 20 variants per each of 289 situations in 11 physical, social, and acoustic dimensions; the theoretical 5,780 were reduced by 31 failed generations. Each variant sampled one to three EmoNet emotions and intensity, plus age and gender. The source pipeline documents DeepSeek V4 Flash for this step. |
extreme_physical |
600 | Six physical-condition categories, ten subcategories each, ten scenarios each: exertion/tension, breathlessness, pain, temperature, oral/taste sensation, and startle. These are designed to create large performance contrasts, not a representative distribution of real-life speech. |
| Total | 19,247 | Seven source families, mixed and shuffled in the upstream master. |
The currently visible Morris knowledge-base index has 799 items, whereas the challenge-generation snapshot is documented as 806. The source does not explain the seven-item difference. The arithmetic 806 × 5 = 4,030 verifies the historical generation count, not the present-day index. Generator identities for the historical Morris, existing-challenge, and extreme-physical expansions are not reliably documented and are therefore not asserted. Gemma 4 E4B-it is documented for the later conversion of challenges into DramaBox-style scripts, which are not included in this dataset.
Balance, provenance, and configurations
The full configuration retains every original row. It is not family-balanced: the 7,390 legacy variants and 5,749 situation variants are much larger than the 200-item VoiceNet extension. Each row has family_sampling_weight = 1 / (7 × number_of_rows_in_its_source_family). Sampling proportionally to these weights makes the seven source families equally likely. This does not make emotions, speakers, language, or all taxonomy intersections equally frequent.
The family_balanced_reference configuration is a reproducible 1,400-row view with 200 examples from each family. It samples by stable SHA-256 order and round-robins over inspired_by seeds for Morris and legacy variants, situation dimensions for situation-derived tasks, and physical categories for extreme tasks. It is useful for quick inspection or small controlled prompt tests, not an independent evaluation split. Its rows are part of the full configuration. The selection procedure is in build_dataset.py; counts and source hash are in MANIFEST.json.
The source master is kept byte-for-byte in source/all_acting_challenges.json, together with the separately published Morris, legacy, situation, and extreme JSON files. Source fields such as id, title, instruction, source, inspired_by, situation_dim, situation_name, and emotions_sampled are preserved. The normalized JSONL enriches the 600 extreme tasks with their category_code, subcategory, scenario, and sampled speaker/emotion fields from the original extreme file. It adds only family_sampling_weight; no challenge text is rewritten. id identifies a row in this shuffled snapshot, not a permanent cross-version identifier. Many titles recur; title is not a key.
The accompanying taxonomies/ directory contains the source EmoNet taxonomy (40 emotions), Situation Taxonomy (289 entries in 11 dimensions), Extreme Physical Taxonomy (6 × 10 × 10 construction), and the source VoiceNet extension HTML. The 57-dimensional VoiceNet taxonomy is described by the upstream documentation. acoustic_signature and related situation descriptions are prompt-design hypotheses, not validated medical or phonetic labels.
Example use
from datasets import load_dataset
repo = "laion/acting-challenge-dataset"
all_rows = load_dataset(repo, "full", split="train")
quick_view = load_dataset(repo, "family_balanced_reference", split="train")
challenge = all_rows[0]
director_input = f"Acting challenge: {challenge['title']}\n{challenge['instruction']}"
For a full-data sampler, use the family_sampling_weight field; for controlled studies, also stratify within the situation and emotion metadata rather than assuming the full pool is jointly balanced. For speech synthesis, keep stage directions separate from quoted words to be spoken, request a plausible emotional progression and physically coherent delivery, then test candidate audio for intelligibility, instruction fit, authenticity, and event placement. Best-of-N selection is a possible application, not a validated property of these text challenges. If a system needs two scenes with the same voice, the source AC/ACCC specification describes a CUT TO: contrast while holding vocal identity stable.
Relationship to the Voice Acting Arena
No Arena challenge instructions, scene contexts, spoken scripts, audio, votes, or private evaluation split are shipped here. The Arena tasks are held back to reduce direct benchmark gaming; this public dataset has a related but broader construction space and is meant for training, inspiration, and internal evaluation. It is not guaranteed semantically disjoint from every Arena idea: an audit of the 374-task internal Arena snapshot found 11 exact generic-title overlaps with this already-public challenge pool, but zero exact matches between an Arena scene context, performance direction, or spoken script and a published instruction. The private evaluation set and this public pool should still be treated as potentially related for contamination-sensitive comparisons. We disclose aggregate overlap only, without publishing the held-out titles.
Rights, attribution, and limits
The source Voice-Acting-Pipeline repository declares Apache-2.0 for its repository material, and this derived packaging retains that declaration for the released challenge text and scripts. This does not license Eric Morris's books or any third-party source material. The Morris-derived tasks are generated inspirations from acting concepts, not a release of the knowledge-base entries or book pages. Users should review source provenance and applicable rights for their own downstream uses, especially for sensitive commercial reuse.
These challenges are largely synthetic and may contain implausible scenes, stereotypes, emotionally intense material, or inaccurate depictions of health and physical states. Scenario taxonomies expand prompt coverage; they do not establish a representative sample of human situations or validated acoustic consequences. The distribution contains derivative families, repeated titles, and concept overlap. No independent human-quality rating or proof of downstream TTS/video benefit accompanies this release.
If you use the dataset, cite the pinned Voice-Acting-Pipeline, acknowledge the acting-method inspiration and upstream taxonomies, and report which configuration and sampling policy you used.
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