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wayned75127652
wayned75127652
Participant
May 11, 2017
Question

Import audio and have it play when you press a key.

  • May 11, 2017
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I'm new to Character Animator,

I thought this would be great for a family member that couldn't speak anymore due to a stroke. Can I import audio files from when he could speak and set it up so he can hit a key and it will play the sentence/word/audio file and whatever character animation we add.  Or is there a program that I could feed all of the audio files I have of him speaking and he could just type and it would play in his voice what he is typing.

Thanks

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Dan Ramirez
Inspiring
May 11, 2017

Audition has a text to speech feature, so if he can type, the computer can synthesize speech from the text:
https://helpx.adobe.com/audition/using/text-to-speeech.html

Generating text-to-speech

On the Mac, I know there are several ways to pipe audio from one application to another(soundflower, loopback, etc,). This would allow that speech to control a character's mouth.

oksamurai
oksamurai
Legend
May 11, 2017

Nothing like this inherently inside Character yet, but triggered audio is a common request and one we'd love to include in future versions.

KJerryK
KJerryK
Legend
May 11, 2017

You could use Audition to start/stop pre-recorded audio with kb click. Character Animator will respond if the audio devices are set appropriately.

On Window 10 there is the Narrator feature, which converts text to audio in real time. I've never really used it, but it might be worth a look. I believe there is something similar on Mac.

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