This is for those poor bastards who use the Half-Life FacePoser and have to manually insert phonemes into their wav,
FacePoser has a choice between two Speech APIs;
Microsoft Speech API
and LIPSinc Speech API.
Valve use the latter of the two,
But we can only use the former (Even then, It doesn't work).
However, If you have a folder called "LIPSinc_data" in your bin folder (well inside a bin folder in the bin folder) you can use the LIPSinc Speech API,
This folder contains .dat files that probably contain voice data and other stuff so that FacePoser can correctly extract phonemes,
While people say you can't use the API that Valve uses
This is in a gray area since the company that provided the LIPSinc TalkBack SDK have since disappeared from the face of the Earth (their website now hosts lipstick ;p)
Though I won't risk uploading the files,
I will say that Valve used it during the DEVELOPMENT of HL2....
If you don't get that then there's no helping you.
I thought they still existed but had changed names.
A few years ago someone updated the the lipsync tool to use Microsoft Speech API version 5.4 (and actually work again) but that's probably long since superceeded too.
Okay not quite. See [url]https://www.facefx.com/story/oc3-entertainment-inc-founded-bring-talking-characters-gaming-market[/url]
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Morrisville, North Carolina - September 6, 2002 - OC3 Entertainment, Inc. officially opens for talking today and announces that it has acquired LIPSinc’s TalkBack®, LiveTalk™, and Impersonator™ software development kits for sale into the gaming market. The technology utilizes audio input to drive realistic facial movements for game characters.
“LIPSinc software established the industry standard for facial animation,” said Doug Perkowski, chief executive officer of OC3 Entertainment. “We’re very excited about the opportunity to deliver and expand upon the applications this technology has in the gaming industry.”
OC3 Entertainment also announced it will continue to develop and support the Impersonator product line, a middleware solution for game engines. A fully integrated version of Impersonator is already available to Unreal Engine licensees. It allows level designers, mod developers or anyone with access to UnrealEd to create convincing character dialog. For more information about Epic Games and the Unreal Engine, please visit [url]www.epicgames.com[/url].
About OC3 Entertainment
OC3 Entertainment ([url]www.oc3ent.com[/url]) is a private company dedicated to powering the gaming industry with realistic talking characters. The company develops the Impersonator product line, a middleware solution for game engines.
About LIPSinc
LIPSinc provided facial animation solutions for gaming, wireless, CRM, and rich media applications before ceasing operations in August 2002.
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