Hey Guys, I might have a workaround. Not perfect by any means. Here are my 9convoluted steps)
1/Write your French text and record it in any recording software and export the audio file so it can be read by Iclone
2/Go to an online platform that will convert your written text to English phonetic text. I tried with toPhonetics, seems to work OK and to be free so far.
3/Load a character to IClone and launch the lip-sync interface (Animation Tab>Animation>Create Script)
4/Select AccuLips
8/In the top menu of the interface, click the" Open Audio File' Button and select your French audio clip
9/In the 'input your text here" area, paste your phonetic English text
10/Hit the "generate text" button. Ignore error message and adjust if needed, for me it did 90% of the job.
11/Hit Apply 

Not perfect, but I think it does a slightly better job than letting AccuLips figure it out by itself, and you can refine it.

Here is my quick and dirty test : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e0HKO_9wOGXwAu3gaLXIrxxJ-Rn6IsyX/view?usp=sharing


Hope it helps

So what about this?

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Unlikely that Iclone will provide foreign languages but REPLICA STUDIOS might [ in the future ] as they are specialising in synthetic voices.  https://replicastudios.com
Latest update to Iclone provides a link in the plugins tab to access the Replica library of voices and to integrate with Acculips. Paid service of course though there is a free starter.
Also its for W10 so wondering if any one has tried installing Replica on W8.?
[Cant upgrade PC yet as waiting on new gen processors Intel 12 and Windows 11 ]  
 

I confirm. I use acculips for french and I have just to modify a few words. In anycase, for me, it's better than the simple lipsync. 


     

Quite a number of English words are derived from French, so the spelling is the same, in which case AccuLips will recognize them.

This is hardly the case with Spanish. If a word is not in the dictionary, AccuLips will fall back on the legacy system, which is a hit or a miss.

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You may contact the people in Montreal 

certainly I could do it but as I see that RL has no motivation for that I would not put energy for that.
it is regrettable because google doc for example recognizes French very well therefore the powerful algorithms exist.
The principle seems simple to associate each word detected with the French dictionary of Montreal and visemes ...

The problem is not getting the text from the speech for AccuLips. The problem is that AccuLips only understands English at the moment.

I think it is relatively easy to add other languages, but RL tells us it is not and they are the boss...:P

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Veed.io provides speech to text with very high accuracy in most languages. I use it for subtitles for non-English languages and also translated subtitles to English. 

Well, that sounds nice as an excuse, but I wonder if that's true. You may contact the people in Montreal (as it is next door to you) to verify that. You would think they would at least have worked on French.

I wonder if RL searched hard enough? See, for example, this: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/. 

Text-supported speech recognition as in AccuLips is actually easier and has been around for a long time. Generating the text from the incoming speech is of course a bit like a cat chasing its own tail but that should not prevent the implementation of additional languages as it is always possible to provide the written text.

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