SGX

The Leading Automatic Speech to Facial Animation Solution

SGX is an award winning, production tested, automatic speech-to-facial animation system. Over 20 years of R&D in speech technology, linguistics, machine learning and procedural facial dynamics are at the core of SGX. Through the innovative application of acoustic analysis and muscle dynamics, SGX produces accurate, consistent, natural lip sync and remarkable full-face emotional expression from just audio and text.

KEY FEATURES

Mass Scale Ready – Generate tens of thousands of animations in minutes
Full face Animation – Generate life like lip sync animation with audio driven full facial expressions
Anatomically Based – Speech is analyzed and translated into virtual muscle activations within our vocal tract simulation
Completely Automatic – No manual alignment of facial poses or visemes to audio clips
No runtime – Playback the keyframe data like you would any other animation
Easy Pipeline Integration – Maya plugins make it easy to add SGX to nearly any animation pipeline
Scriptable – Completely automate your facial animation production
Multi-language support – Localize your animation automatically
Works with any 3D character – Compatible with hybrid, blendshape, and joint based character animation rigs

REQUEST TRIAL

“The team at Respawn used Speech Graphics to generate thousands of high-quality facial animations for gameplay lines in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. By analyzing our audio and written transcripts of our dialogue, the Speech Graphics software produced animations at a high fidelity to both the sound and the actual emotion of the voice acting. We were immediately impressed by how the whole face of the in-game character would reflect the tone of the line — even before adding the emotional markup that Speech Graphics offers. Thank you!”

David Midgley

Senior Technical Designer

SGX USE CASES

GAMES

Enabling the Next-Generation of Blockbuster AAA and Indie Titles

Automatically animate hundreds of thousands of lines of dialog
Build worlds teeming with speaking NPCs
Tell even bigger stories and polish cutscenes
Localize animation to match localized audio
Add emotion and better connect with characters in any genre
Free animators to work on other critical tasks

TRAINING + EDUCATION

Improve learning and engagement with compelling characters

Animate deep dialog trees to simulate customer conversations
Tutorials, and user guides
Interactive installations, and kiosks

FILM + TELEVISION

Increase Animator output

Accelerate speech animation for short form, episodic, and feature animation
Automatically generate animation for markets around the world from localized audio
Add emotional performances to Pre-Viz

REQUEST TRIAL

“Speech Graphics provided efficient, quality results for our automated in-game speech. The Maya tools and plug-in allowed us to easily iterate on the results of the audio analysis onto our custom face rig until we met our visual target, without the need for animators to spend manual effort on individual face animations. I’m very happy with the results, and would recommend Speech Graphics as a solution for any audio based, automated face animation pipeline.”

David Coleman

Technical Art Director, XBox Game Studios – The Coalition

CREATE EMOTIONAL ANIMATION

Direct the emotions of your characters’ animations using Mood Markup.

When preparing your transcripts for processing, define the desired mood and intensity to realize the emotional nuance you envision. With the included SG Studio Maya plug-in you can create an unlimited library of custom moods that are exactly right for your characters and dialog.

Mood library – Author and choose from an unlimited number of moods with an unlimited number of facial expressions for a given mood
Bi-Tonal Moods – These special moods modulate their expression based on changes in the pitch and intensity of audio
Markup – Set the mood for a performance across a batch of lines, for an individual line, or change moods multiple times within a single line of dialog
Emotion Detection – Automatically modulate the mood of a character based on the Positivity, Negativity, and Neutrality of vocal performance

THE SGX WORKFLOW

Begin to animate a single line of dialog or a thousand lines in just a few clicks using our GUI or by launching a custom script.

REQUEST TRIAL

“Speech Graphics’ SGX enabled the team at Eidos-Montréal to generate over 20,000 high quality lip-sync animations for Shadow Of The Tomb Raider with its wide range of conversations. The generated content integrated directly into our existing animation pipeline, which made it a nice addition to our tools and the team provided fast and expert support to our needs throughout our production.”

Pierre-Marc Simard

Animation Technical Director, Eidos-Montréal

MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT

SGX can generate life like emotional facial animation in twelve languages. By localizing your audio AND your animation you can better connect with audiences in markets around the world.

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

English (UK, USA)
French
German
Italian

Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Polish

Portuguese
Russian
Spanish (European, Latin America)

“The Speech Graphics tools easily integrated into our automated build system, and gave us deterministic results to allow for minimal incremental builds. We distributed execution of the tools in parallel to generate animations for over 100,000 speech lines for Gears 5. I’m very happy with the performance and results from the Speech Graphics command line tools and Maya plugin.”

Jess Kube

Principal Software Engineer, XBox Game Studios – The Coalition

LICENSING OPTIONS

SGX has a number of license options including; Indie, Production, and Studio. Please contact us to schedule a consultation. We look forward to talking soon and finding the right SGX license for you and your project.

REQUEST TRIAL

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SGX

The Leading Automatic Speech to Facial Animation Solution

KEY FEATURES

SGX USE CASES

GAMES

Enabling the Next-Generation of Blockbuster AAA and Indie Titles

TRAINING + EDUCATION

Improve learning and engagement with compelling characters

FILM + TELEVISION

Increase Animator output

CREATE EMOTIONAL ANIMATION

THE SGX WORKFLOW

MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

LICENSING OPTIONS

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