AccuLips can only be used with standard CC3+ characters.. You can't use it with non-standard characters.


                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Is there any way to use this with a custom character, like one made in Blender, assuming I set up the shape keys properly?

I agree. AccuLips saves a lot of time and the results look great. with the normal Lipsynch in Italian I have to work enough on the synchronization and visemes. I have been using iclone for many years and I would like this aspect to improve. less time spent means a lot in choosing a software

I frankly don't understand the reluctance. Its availability in other languages would AccuLips make even more desirable. 

As far as I can see you need three things:

1. A language model - this exists for multiple languages.
2. A pronunciation dictionary - this exists for multiple languages.  
3. A phoneme to viseme mapping, which is simply a table.

You could even get an intern with the right background to work on it...:P

For more, check out Vosk at: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api.

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Yes definitely should have more languages. Portuguese too.

There is some more discussion about this in this thread: https://forum.reallusion.com/487864/AccuLips-other-languages.

I used to work in the Natural Language Processing field and know that there is enough speech-recognition support in other languages available to make it happen, so I disagree with RL's position on this. Any smartphone is able to understand a variety of languages other than English.

In fact, the remnants for German are already there (see C:\Program Files\Reallusion\iClone 7\Resource\ICTextToSpeech\Dictionary) and were functional during testing.

It would be good if we got some more voices in support of this as it it would be quite useful. Maybe shift some resources back to iClone's core functionality?

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Unfortunately AccuLips only supports English and there are no immediate plans for any other languages. However, in the future this may change so never say never.


                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Hi everyone, is it possible that acculips will also be supported for Italian? Thanks for the reply

Ah, thanks!


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There's never dumb question :) , you're welcome for all questions, there 's always someone answering you on this forum, there are even some boss who avoid headaches for us :) . So the good news is acculips is a free update at Iclone. For having it, you just have to convert your character to CC3+