Before we get into the details of speech, phonemes, and animation, we will construct a simple example of how our previous work with developing audio visualizations can be easily applied to character lip syncing. Follow the instructions here to create a new project and set up the scene:
- Open Unity and create a new project called GameAudio_Vocals. After the empty project initializes, select Assets - Import Package - Custom Package from the menu and use the file dialog to find the Chapter_9_Assets folder in the book's downloaded source code. Select the in the folder and click on Open to import the assets.
- Locate the in the Project folder and double-click to open it. Connect a microphone if you need to and press play to ...