Does someone have this folder "montreal-forced-aligner" in their Iclone folder here ?
"C:\Program Files\Reallusion\iClone 7\Resource\ICTextToSpeech\montreal-forced-aligner"

If yes , what's for???

Question 1: Yes

Question 2: Who the heck knows?

My Question: Why did you look there?

Not a clue what this is for, but now i am curious.




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I did a search online for "montreal forced aligner" and came up with this:

What is forced alignment?

Forced alignment is a technique to take an orthographic transcription of an audio file and generate a time-aligned version using a pronunciationdictionary to look up phones for words.

Might be part of acculips or something to do with phonemes?

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Thank you Jeff

I looked in this file to see if the update announced by Miranda had a link with the French dictionary that we are waiting for.
https://forum.reallusion.com/FindPost486813.aspx
 I was curious to know why RL called this file "Montreal" because I live in Montreal which is a French Canadian city.
Let's say I was hoping for something ...  

The aligner seems to be based on work done at McGill University, which is in Montreal. 

I don't know exactly what is holding things up because there are large online pronunciation dictionaries (I was looking for Dutch and found one), unless there are licensing issues for commercial use.

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Here is the link for French: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/Acoustic%20and%20Language%20Models/French/.

The dictionary is the file fr.dict. It lists words followed by an encoding of the phonemes.

This is from the CMU Sphinx project. The idea is to take a list like that and then have a conversion routine that generates the visemes.

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Oh my god Animagic! Thank you

It seams that the fr.dict have the same structure like the en.dict.
it would just be necessary to create a file fr.PhonemeVisemeMapping isn't it ?  

I played a little bit with that using Dutch, but currently it seems that the system only accepts a dictionary called en.dict and the corresponding en.PhonemeVisemeMapping. As I don't make films in Dutch, I didn't go any further with it.

So your French files would need to be renamed as if they were English and you would have to figure out the mapping. What I don't know if the system also expects a specific naming of the phonemes or if the mapping file would take care of that.

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I have already tried to replace with the French file by renaming it en.dict but unfortunately Iclone uses the English file.
Moreover the blendshape phoneme are specific to the English language, it would be necessary to add some for the sound "in", "on", "an" which is specific to the French language.
 I remain convinced that it is child's play for Reallusion to add this french dictionary ...