Hello!
I want to give a custom look to when SIL part of the audio happens. How can I create it?
Hi,
The SIL phoneme was removed from the mapping table way back in FaceFX 2015. It was an intentional change due to long ramp ins and other edge cases that only applied to the silence phoneme due to its special nature in our coarticulation algorithm.
A better approach than mapping to SIL would be to use analysis actors where you have much more control via silence events. The analysis actor approach should give you more control in terms of how the curve is created.
If that doesn't work for you, you can still map to the SIL phoneme using the map command, but you will get warnings when you load your actor. There is a secret way to map to the silence phoneme that is available to you. We removed it from the mapping tab, but you can still use mapping commands for the SIL phoneme:
That command would map the silence phoneme to the "open" track with a mapping value of 1. Probably not what you want to do, but possible. Beware, you won't be able to see in the mapping tab that you have something mapped to SIL, exporting an XML file is the only way to see it.
We try to discourage people from mapping to silence however because it is not always intuitive how a "silence curve" should interact with other phonemes so the results aren't always what you want.
Please reach out to us via email if you need more help with this.
Hi! The method with editing analysis actor seems the most efficient. Are there any tutorial on how you create/edit analysis actors and their properties?
Unfortunately, there aren't any tutorials on that since it's very easy to make mistakes that generate bad looking animations. We do have some documentation on it, though.
Hi,
The SIL phoneme was removed from the mapping table way back in FaceFX 2015. It was an intentional change due to long ramp ins and other edge cases that only applied to the silence phoneme due to its special nature in our coarticulation algorithm.
A better approach than mapping to SIL would be to use analysis actors where you have much more control via silence events. The analysis actor approach should give you more control in terms of how the curve is created.
If that doesn't work for you, you can still map to the SIL phoneme using the map command, but you will get warnings when you load your actor. There is a secret way to map to the silence phoneme that is available to you. We removed it from the mapping tab, but you can still use mapping commands for the SIL phoneme:
map -set -phoneme "SIL" -track "open" -value 1.000000;
That command would map the silence phoneme to the "open" track with a mapping value of 1. Probably not what you want to do, but possible. Beware, you won't be able to see in the mapping tab that you have something mapped to SIL, exporting an XML file is the only way to see it.
We try to discourage people from mapping to silence however because it is not always intuitive how a "silence curve" should interact with other phonemes so the results aren't always what you want.
Please reach out to us via email if you need more help with this.
Hi! The method with editing analysis actor seems the most efficient. Are there any tutorial on how you create/edit analysis actors and their properties?
Hi,
Unfortunately, there aren't any tutorials on that since it's very easy to make mistakes that generate bad looking animations. We do have some documentation on it, though.
yeah, I checked the documentation, unfortunately, it doesn't cover stuff for w newbie like me(
Email our support alias and we will try to help you next week.