Alternatives for Facial Blendshape

there are two main types:

Animation = you take as much time as needed to make it all look correct = I use Iclone... they are the best, the most $ and Mac users need not apply

or there is live capture = you make character and use a camera [now days a iphone] to record an actor talking and the character does whatever your actor does in real time... this is a wild west of different free or small $ software and while i do dabble, wetcircuit aka cutscene artist is the queen

https://cutsceneartist.com/

she had dozzens of great tutorials that Adobe just tossed in the garbage bin

Adobe Photoshop still has blend shapes until Adobe gets around to it... after that you have to use a 3rd party software