Hi

As a learning project, I am at the beginning of creating a music video. The castle I posted about previously will be involved in this once I get it built in Hexagon. At any rate, here is what I have done.

There is a song that I really like by Libby McGrath called Princess. I give fair warning that it might stick in your head for a while if you search it out, but I love the concept and the lyrics.

I have a text file of the words which I have run through a text to speech program (Balabolka). I have that file on the sound line of my project in animation, which nicely drives the facial movements so that my avatar (Heidi) will act as my singer.

I have dropped the mp3 of the song into the main window and it is working fine as the background music. So, I have the audio of the text file and the mp3 both playing at the same time.

The next step is to synchronize the spoken audio with the voice of the mp3. The timing is worlds apart right now, so I am wondering if there is a better approach than just trying to speed up the spoken word delivery.

Is there a way to perhaps use the text of the song from the full mp3 (music and voice) to drive the lip-syncing instead of a separate text file?

High level suggestions would be great. I can figure out the process with a little prodding on the overall direction.

Thanks,

Tim

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