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by johnday 2398 days ago
Hate to break it to you, but injecting human emotion into speech is more than just putting intonation and punctuation in the right place.
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I read the parent post as suggesting that the appropriate "acting" cues and emphasis might be explicitly annotated in the text just as the intonation and punctuation in normal text.

However, I'd guess that it's simply quicker and more efficient for someone to just properly act and speak the lines with a dramatic effect and any explicit annotation of how exactly they should be said takes much more time and effort.