Nicolas
02/18/2026, 8:59 PMAI Evy
02/18/2026, 8:59 PMAI Evy
02/18/2026, 9:00 PM[excited] or [sighs] directly in prompts for Retell AI.
However, there are some related voice customization options you can configure:
- **`voice_emotion`**: Controls the emotional tone of the agent's voice. Currently supported for Cartesia and Minimax TTS providers. Available options include: calm, sympathetic, happy, sad, angry, fearful, surprised [(1) ]() [(2) ]()
- **`voice_temperature`**: Controls how stable the voice is, with values ranging from [0,2]. Higher values produce more variant speech generation
This means you can set an overall emotional tone for your agent, but inline audio tags within prompts for dynamic emotional expressions aren't documented in the available sources.
Check out these potentially useful sources:
- [Update Voice Agent]()
- [Create Voice Agent]()
Would you like me to try to answer this more generally based on my knowledge?AI Evy
02/18/2026, 9:00 PMAI Evy
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