textToLipSync

animates a facial rig to show as if its speaking the entered text in Maya.

Used The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary from the following website for extracting phenomes from the entered text. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

Used the Mery character Rig from the following website. https://www.meryproject.com/

HOW TO USE IT.

-download mery rig from the above website.
-copy contents from script directory in this repo to your maya script directory.
-import rig in maya.
-open maya's python script editor and enter the following commands

import mery_talks
reload(mery_talks)
mery_talks.runFacialExpressions()

enter words to see the rig talking.