Persona, affect, valence, arousal, interoception, prosody, and other emotion-aware AI terms with audio, IPA, and sources.
Emotion-aware agents combine vocabulary from psychology, speech, neuroscience, and embodied cognition. Familiar-looking words such as affect and valence change meaning or stress in technical use, while interoception and autopoiesis are easy to misread. This collection keeps the core terms, audio, IPA, and citations together.
| Word | Audio | Respelling | IPA | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| persona | per soh nuh | /pɚˈsoʊnə/ | cs-term | |
| affect | AFF ekt | /ˈæfɛkt/ | cs-term | |
| affective | uh FEK tiv | /əˈfɛktɪv/ | cs-term | |
| anthropomorphism | an thruh puh MOR fiz um | /ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːrfɪzəm/ | cs-term | |
| prosody | PRAH suh dee | /ˈprɑːsədi/ | cs-term | |
| valence | vay luns | /ˈveɪləns/ | cs-term | |
| arousal | uh rouse uhl | /əˈraʊzəl/ | cs-term | |
| interoception | in ter oh SEP shun | /ˌɪntəroʊˈsɛpʃən/ | cs-term | |
| alexithymia | uh lek sih THIGH mee uh | /əˌlɛksɪˈθaɪmiə/ | cs-term | |
| affordance | uh FOR dunce | /əˈfɔːrdəns/ | cs-term | |
| homeostasis | hoh mee oh STAY sis | /ˌhoʊmioʊˈsteɪsɪs/ | cs-term | |
| enactivism | ih NAK tih viz um | /ɪˈnæktɪvɪzəm/ | cs-term | |
| autopoiesis | aw toh poy EE sis | /ˌɔːtoʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs/ | cs-term | |
| embodied | im bod eed | /ɪmˈbɒdid/ | cs-term | |
| reward-model | rih ward mod ul | /rɪˈwɔːrd ˌmɒdəl/ | cs-term | |
| sycophancy | sick uh fuhn see | /ˈsɪkəfənsi/ | cs-term |
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