Faces & Phonemes

A phoneme is a linguistic term for the positions of the tongue, lips, and teeth as they make sounds. Producing certain sounds requires the mouth and tongue to be in certain positions. Stringing phonemes together is what produces speech.

Poser allows you to create the appearance of phonemes (called visemes when observed) to accurately simulate speech, a useful feature when adding sound to your scenes (such as a speech). You simulate speech by using different phonemes and keyframes to sync your figure’s mouth movements to an imported sound (see Sound ). Poser’s Talk Designer can automatically generate a lipsync animation for you based upon settings that you configure in the Talk Designer palette. For more information about the Talk Designer, see Using the Talk Designer.

Phoneme morphs work with the Talk Designer.