Lip sync solutions for Animate?

[jjwu724]

Does anyone know of any good software that can analyze an audio recording and generate key frames for a character's mouth movements to match it? Preferably something that works well with Animate.

[Myra Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Try SmartMouth from Ajar Productions.

[jjwu724]

SmartMouth looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. Anyone know if it still works with Animate?

[_keyframer]

Looks like Justin has updated it based on its description:

"SmartMouth is an Adobe Animate and Flash Pro extension that automatically analyzes vocal audio tracks and adds mouth shapes."

[_keyframer]

Lip-syncing automatically with SmartMouth in Flash Professional | Adobe Developer Connection

Check out the "Required products" - it lists Adobe Animate CC.

[jjwu724]

I might give SmartMouth a try, but their licensing fees are pretty atrocious. If you buy it and install it on your computer, you have to buy it again if you get a new computer. It seems like there's no way to transfer the license. And if you ever had to do a clean install of Windows, you would have to buy it again also.

[lumenmedia]

Yes, the fees might seem restrictive, but in practice Justin is really flexible. if you’ve bought licenses from him, he’ll work with you and your circumstances.

i had situations where I had a new computer and wanted to reuse the license from my old installation, and once where a hard drive died taking my license with it. In both cases he issued me renewed licenses after I contactEd him and explained the circumstances,

[rayek.elfin]

A free and open source solution would be Papagayo.

Tutorial: Adobe Animate CC Lip Sync Tutorial - YouTube

http://www.lostmarble.com/papagayo/

[_keyframer]

What Myra said. SmartMouth is the only one I know of.