Terry Mitchell... i've tried singing but it doesn't work.. al least that's what i feel. And that's even if you type it more phonetically. When you elongate vowels,,, that is not captured by mimic. I think it may open the mouth but then close it again. Back to the topic, thanks everyone. When syncing animation to sound, The characters are not a problem.. Usually i can just apply the same mimic pose to all and then delete mouth animation frames in the space of time when a character is not talking. The difficult part, is the sound effects. It would help if i could repeatedly hear a frame's sound bit so that the sound can register in my mind. When cliking the ADVANCE ONE frame button, the sound is too short and too fast.