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GDS 214 WEB DESIGN II
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Lip Syncing Your Animation Getting your animation in sync with your audio has historically been diffucult and time consuming. I found a little program called Flash Amp that makes it much easier. Instead of trying to match the mouth with the p's and the t's ect. the way most books show you, Flash Amp uses a more simple approach. The program measures the amptitude (loudness) of the sound file and creates an array of numbers representing how loud each frame is in your movie. You create a small movie for your mouth where each frame represents how wide the mouth is open from closed to open. In my movie, I used a ten frame mouth and a two frame eyebrow movie, which I inserted in other movie clips representing my characters. For this example, my characters were a boy and a girl discussing the virtues of Adaptalap, which is one of my customers. Click here to see the animation Making your Sound Files Besides Flash Amp and Flash, the only other software I used
was Windows sound recorder and WinAmp (free with Netscape).
I used Bell Labs' free "Text to Speech" Conversion
Tool on the Internet. There are several text to speech software programs out there. You could use one of them or use recording software to record your own audio instead of using Bell Labs online program as I did but it is free and easy. Be careful if you use Bell Labs as they have a limitation of 40 files per day. I went over my limit with two more files to make so I went to there other site and luckily enough, it let me finish the last two. You can find Bell Labs Interactive Text to Speech Demonstration at:
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