This is really useful, thanks! But I have a question - is it possible to customize what the mouth animations will be? If I remember correctly the exe makes an A-E-I-O-U animation, but for my mod I'm working on it would've been useful to try different movements
The source code containing the audio files will need to be downloaded. All the LIP files under "\bin\audio\lip\", including those compressed into the FUZ format in "\bin\audio\fuz_lip\", will need to be manually replaced with the new LIP files that are of matching length and file name. Once those are replaced, the application will need to be recompiled.
It wasn't possible to create LIP files off of a single template since the format is generated using proprietary software embedded within the CK, so having individual LIP files for each audio duration (1 - 30 seconds) was the only solution.
Very interesting. "Fuz Ro D-oh - Silent Voice" is a good one, but it is not versatile because the length of silent voice is fixed. Authors of Quest / Follower mods without a voice actor should use this tool to provide silent voice files, so player does not need to adjust the voice length of Fuz Ro D-oh. And I have one question. Is lip file generated dynamically by dialogue response text? Or will it generate the same lip file depending on the length of the text? I have been pursuing the format of the lip file all the time, so I'm wondering if this tool may generate lip dynamically.
The Fuz Ro D-oh plug-in doesn't have fixed durations. The value that's modified in that plug-in's INI is the "words-per-second" count, which is also used in this utility for calculations. Using Fuz Ro D-oh is preferable for mod users when creating an SKSE dependency isn't a problem. It helps save compression time + storage space since that plug-in fills in all missing audio files at runtime instead of relying on a variable amount of blank files.
There are 30 pregenerated LIP files included in the utility that are exported alongside the audio file matching the duration (1 - 30 seconds is the range available for Silent Voice Generator). For example, "23.lip" gets packed together with "23.wav". Both are 23 seconds.
Thank you for the reply. I understood the mechanism of the tool. In some languages (eg. Chinese, Japanese), blank characters are not used so much and the word count is small, so the audio duration of Fuz Ro D-oh is fixed to short one (1 or 2). When we translate English mods into a native language, the player needs to adjust the duration by replacing the audio file of Fuz Ro D-oh. It would be a good solution to generate a silent voice using this tool.
It's a utility for those working with dialogue in the Creation Kit, especially those who don't plan on adding voice acting. It handles and generates the necessary audio files for dialogue.
I read the description but I don't understand what this mod does. Can it change wav files to fuz with lip-syncing so that I can use them for PC headtracking and voice mod?
@waiyan --- This utility isn't for converting from one audio format to another. To get the FUZ with lip-synch files, the exported dialogue files from the CK will be needed.
@lued123 --- Yes, this can be used to avoid making SKSE + Silent Voice a requirement for mods. Usually it's a long, manual process to create the blank audio files with the appropriate duration, but this utility does it all automatically.
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It wasn't possible to create LIP files off of a single template since the format is generated using proprietary software embedded within the CK, so having individual LIP files for each audio duration (1 - 30 seconds) was the only solution.
And I have one question. Is lip file generated dynamically by dialogue response text? Or will it generate the same lip file depending on the length of the text? I have been pursuing the format of the lip file all the time, so I'm wondering if this tool may generate lip dynamically.
There are 30 pregenerated LIP files included in the utility that are exported alongside the audio file matching the duration (1 - 30 seconds is the range available for Silent Voice Generator). For example, "23.lip" gets packed together with "23.wav". Both are 23 seconds.
In some languages (eg. Chinese, Japanese), blank characters are not used so much and the word count is small, so the audio duration of Fuz Ro D-oh is fixed to short one (1 or 2). When we translate English mods into a native language, the player needs to adjust the duration by replacing the audio file of Fuz Ro D-oh.
It would be a good solution to generate a silent voice using this tool.
The heavy use of Silent Voices and its disparity versus Voice Acting will make this a key solution for many modders!
Thank You Enter_77!
@lued123 --- Yes, this can be used to avoid making SKSE + Silent Voice a requirement for mods. Usually it's a long, manual process to create the blank audio files with the appropriate duration, but this utility does it all automatically.