6. The computer program product of claim 5 , further comprising: computer usable program code for computing a milieu for the chat session from the emotion meta-data; and, computer usable program code for incorporating the milieu for the chat session in the transcript.
5. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable storage medium embodying computer usable program code for emotional state transcription for chat sessions, the computer program product comprising: computer usable program code for initializing a chat session in an instant messenger; computer usable program code for engaging in an audio conversation through the instant messenger; computer usable program code for collecting emotion meta-data for the audio conversation and mapping the emotion meta-data to emotional icons (emoticons); and, computer usable program code for combining a speech recognized form of the audio conversation with the emoticons and text from the chat session into a chat transcript.