oilscum opened this issue on Mar 02, 2001 ยท 2 posts
oilscum posted Fri, 02 March 2001 at 1:46 AM
I have no knowledge of Python apart from what I have read in this forum, but I am intrigued by its capabilities. But I was specifically wondering if Python scripts would be capable of providing lipsync to Poser models (similar to, if not exactly like, LipSync's Mimic program). Shouldn't this be feasible? If so, what would be required to accomplish such a thing? As i've said, I have no real knowledge of Python for Poser (yet) so maybe i'm just pipedreaming. Any comments are welcome.
ockham posted Fri, 02 March 2001 at 12:25 PM
I've been thinking about this, and probably will do it sooner or later. Python by itself couldn't do it, but with the help of an external wave-analysis program, it should be possible. Python could select the point in the .WAV that corresponds to each frame in the animation, and call the external program to analyze 100 msec of the wave starting there. The wave analyzer could (minimally) tell Poser to open the lips more when the fundamental freq (voice itself as opposed to the hissing of sibilants)is stronger; it could also check the spectrum and shape the mouth toward rough correspondence to O or E. Anything beyond that would require manual tweaking, I suspect.