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• steveR

  January 2015

  Thanks for bringing this up. Looks like maybe a great solution for those with a Mac. The other solutions seem to be all Windows based.

  
  

  
  
• ChrisIceBox

  January 2015

  Papagayo - support for which was added in 1.41 - is also Mac-compatible.
  
• steveR

  January 2015

  Hi:

  
  

  Thanks for adding Papagayo support. Plus for this is that it works for the Mac and is free. Downside is that you have to manually  add the words to the audio tracks. 

  
  

  Salsa appears to be more powerful and has the advantage of working for the Mac and automatically adding the words to the audio I believe. Very slight disadvantage is that it cost $30.  I do not have it but certainly looks like it may be a better option. Down the road if you are able to add support for this it would be great, since it looks like it has excellent reviews.

  
  

  Also many thanks for your great implementation of the Unity UI, along with the other many great features you are adding continuously.

  
  

  
  
• PixelCrushers

  January 2015

  Chris - SALSA with RandomEyes would be a nice, easy-to-implement addition to Adventure Creator. Unlike Papagayo, you don't have to preprocess audio clips. Just drop them into the project, and SALSA will run them. This is because SALSA does lipsync approximation. It isn't as accurate as phoneme mapping, but it's a heck of a lot easier, and the results are good enough.
  
  On top of this, RandomEyes handles facial expressions and automatic eye focus, which really adds a lot of the delivery of lines.
  
  The developer recently added PlayMaker actions. The code in those actions can serve as good "how to" templates for writing Adventure Creator actions.
  
  (steveR - As an alternative, if you have the Dialogue System, you can run a "Third Party: Dialogue system conversation" action to run a Dialogue System conversation and use its built-in SALSA support.)
  
• steveR

  January 2015

  Thanks PixelCrushers :

  
  

  I purchased Dialogue System in a sale awhile ago. I will have to give it a try.

  
  

  
  

  
  
• SoundGuy

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  @stever i love Dialgue System and using it with Chat mapper.  and @pixelcrushers is really doing an amazing job supporting it and connecting it with AC as seamlessly as possible. Although i would still want there to be more transparancy between the two (i have not tried a unigied Unity 4.6 UI between the two of them yet)

  
  

  @chrisIceBox if you do consider adding support for that, i would love to know so i would buy that and give it a try. I always prefer a single unified solution 
• ChrisIceBox

  January 2015

  @SoundGuy: The author's been in touch with me and we're looking into it.  That's not a guarantee, though - just a statement of intent.
  
• SoundGuy

  January 2015

  cool.
• crazyM

  March 2015

  Hello @SoundGuy,
  
  This is Mike from Crazy Minnow Studio, one of the developers behind the SALSA with RandomEyes lip sync solution. We are pleased to announce that Chris has included integrated support for SALSA in his latest 1.43 release of Adventure Creator. The integration leverages new features in SALSA 1.3.0.
  
  http://crazyminnowstudio.com/projects/salsa-with-randomeyes-lipsync/
  
  
  
• crazyM

  March 2015

  @ChrisIceBox - Thanks Chris!
  
• themightyzq

  November 2015

  Hey all - 

  
  

  Has anyone setup Salsa3D with FUSE Characters in AC and only using text for lipsync?  As of right now, I'm not using voice over in my game, but I'd still like to leverage Salsa for lipsync.  If it's not designed to do that, I can look into doing the basic AC text speech implementation, but I figured, I'm already using Salsa3D with RandomEyes, so I'd like to have it all live in one place.
• themightyzq

  March 2017

  Hey all - 

  Just a heads up that Mike and the @crazyM crew have released some excellent additional tools for AC:
  
  

  Text to LipSync: https://crazyminnowstudio.com/posts/salsa-text-to-lipsync-using-textsync/

  
  

  SALSA Actions for Adventure Creator & Adventure Creator listener for TextSync: https://crazyminnowstudio.com/posts/latest-version-of-adventure-creator-supports-salsa/

  
  

  I've been working with the Crazy Minnow team for a little while on these additional tools and have been super happy with them.  I highly recommend you check them out if you are needing some text-only lipsync and control over facial animations using Salsa+RandomEyes.