AniLip creates lip animations from written text.
Features:
- Multiple language support.
- Voice selection
- Enter any text
- Transform the written text to a sound file
- Generate visemes from the sound file and write them to the timeline
- In an expert mode each viseme can be tailored.
- Adjust the speech rate.
- Adjust the volume.
- Adjust the strength.
- Support of MS SAPI 5
- Support of Genesis, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, Genesis 8, Horse 2, Dragon 3
- Windows 32 and 64 bit
No other plugins are needed.
If you have any questions, feel free to post them here and i will answer them.
Some additional notes:
- AniLip supports text to speech only.
- AniLip supports the Windows SAPI up to v5.
Using additional voices
Microsoft ships usually one or two voices for each language.
You can add more voices by adding new languages.
There are also many third party providers for SAPI voices (free and commercial).
Some of these voices are related to special software packages and cannot be addressed from AniLip.
Some vendors offer 32 Bit voices. Those cannot be used in 64 Bit environments. But you can use DAZ Studio 32 Bit as AniLip is 32 Bit compatible.
Microsoft made it's Mobile Voices available for the desktop versions of Windows 10. Those voices cannot be used in AniLip as they have no SAPI interface.
This wikipedia article gives an overview of available speech synthesizers. Many of them offer SAPI versions.
There are two main reasons to add new voices:
1. Changing the type and character of the voices
Instead of adding new voices you could use audio software to change the sound of the voice.You could use audacity or specilized software like MorphVOX, Voxal Voice Changer and some others.
2. Using high quality voices.
You can use the existing voices to create the lip animation and synchronise with a recorded human voice or a high quality synthesiser voice.
There are many cloud services available (Ivona/Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure, Acapella, ...).
Our promotional video has been done that way. The animation was done in AniLip with standard voices, and the voices have been recorded with "acapella-box".
Using video editing software we matched sound and animation.