Notes on Lip Sync

Modified on Sun, 2 Mar at 6:39 PM

When writing your conversation, please keep the below in mind in order to create the best performance of lip sync possible.

Korean


  • Not all date and time formats are supported for Korean text to speech and lip sync.

If some abbreviated phrases are used, the appearance of the lip sync will be incorrect.

Below are valid examples for “4:35 pm” and “the 12th of March 2022”.

Valid Time:

  • 오후 4시 35분

  • 오후 네시 삼십오분 (same as above with numbers written in words)

  • 4시 35분

  • 네시 삼십오분 (same as above with numbers written in words)

Extra note on valid Korean time phrases:
  • Note that phrases like 4시 30분 will be pronounced explicitly as 네시 삼십분,

  • And phrases like 4시 반 will be pronounced explicitly as 네시 반

Invalid Time:

  • 4:35pm

  • 4:35 pm

  • 4:35

  • 435

  • 4-35

  • 4.35

Valid Date:

  • 2022/3/12 (yyyy/{m}m/{d}d) where characters in {} are optional (i.e single digit months and days are allowed)

  • 2022-3-12 (yyyy-{m}m-{d}d)

  • 2022년 3월 12일

Invalid Date:

  • Any other format.

Japanese

Not all date and time formats are supported for Japanese text to speech and lip sync. 

If some abbreviated phrases are used, the appearance of the lip sync will be incorrect.

Below are valid examples for “4:35 pm” and “the 12th of March 2022”.


Valid Time:

  • 午後4時35分

  • 午後四時三十五分 (same as above with numbers written in words)

  • 4時35分

  • 四時三十五分 (same as above with numbers written in words)


Invalid Time:

  • 4:35pm

  • 4:35 pm

  • 4:35

  • 435

  • 4-35

  • 4.35


Valid Date:

  • 2022年3月12日

  • 二千二十二年三月十二日


Invalid Date:

  • 12/3/2022 ({d}d/{m}m/yyyy)

  • 12-3-2022 ({d}d-{m}m-yyyy) → (this one works sometimes, but the text to speech system sometimes interprets it as a phone number)

  • 3/12/2022 ({m}m/{d}d/yyyy) → (this will be read out with the days and month reversed)

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