like say look at poser 6 template on the Morph routing tab. On the right side there are two columns.
the first one says MouthOpen. If directlty to its right i just change it to NoseWrinkle, what am i telling the program to do?
or if first column says mouthM and next column over i choose my own custom MouthS what am i telling program to do?
whats relation between column 1 and column 2?

thanks

Example, You have a creature with two mouths. the second mouth is on your figure's forehead. With PoserSpeak you can route all of your speech action to the regular mouth except "MouthO" which you can route to the second mouth on your creature's forehead. The end result, is as you generate speech, if PoserSpeak moves the morph called "MouthO" it will instead move the mouth on your creatures forehead.

Another example is the Poser cat. Since the cat does not have eye brows, you can still route the P4 template BrowLeft to move the cat's ears back and forth. You control this in the Morph Routing tab of PoserSpeak.

In a nutshell, you use Morph routing to route morphs from the template (P4 or P6) to your character. The purpose of this is to allow you to use non-standard characters inside PoserSpeak. If you only use Vicki or Jessi (or any other standard Poser character) you can ignore the Morph Routing Window altogether.

Hope this makes sense.
jtrue

Maybe you can explain how Poser Speak when playing back text matches the morphs to text.
How does PoserSpeak know which morphs to use when the text is read or played?
thanks

Anyways, here's a brief tour of doing it. Copy the folder PoserSpeak/bin/P6 and rename it PoserSpeakP6Phonemes and put it in your Runtime/libraries/Pose folder. Now you can open Poser and edit the poses 1-21 inside PoserSpeakP6Phonemes. When you finish editing, put the poses back into PoserSpeak (inside the P6 folder See warning above!). Posing the phoneme's is tricky business. The speech api uses the 21 phoneme's created by Disney. Here's the chart from the SAPI5 docs:

SVP_0 = 0 'silence
SVP_1 = 1 'ae ax ah
SVP_2 = 2 'aa
SVP_3 = 3 'ao
SVP_4 = 4 'ey eh uh
SVP_5 = 5 'er
SVP_6 = 6 'y iy ih ix
SVP_7 = 7 'w uw
SVP_8 = 8 'ow
SVP_9 = 9 'aw
SVP_10 = 10 'oy
SVP_11 = 11 'ay
SVP_12 = 12 'h
SVP_13 = 13 'r
SVP_14 = 14 'l
SVP_15 = 15 's z
SVP_16 = 16 'sh ch jh zh
SVP_17 = 17 'th dh
SVP_18 = 18 'f v
SVP_19 = 19 'd t n
SVP_20 = 20 'k g ng
SVP_21 = 21 'p b m

Most of the work i have done in creating PoserSpeak was in translating these codes into poses for both P4 and P6 methods. If you want really good results in PoserSpeak, i say stick with the P6 template i created but increase your Poser framerate to 60fps and allow PoserSpeak a keyframe interval of 2 or 3.

as the P4 morphs don't work very well with Victoria4 I tried to setup a new phoneme set. Based on a commercial V4 phoneme lib I created the 21 Disney morphs (fc2 files) as you advised and named them 00.fc2 to 21.fc2. Now the question is how to integrate them into poserspeak.

As far as I understand the sets.txt file in P4 determines which of the morph targets are transferred into the poser figure. I tried to change the mouth section as required by my new phoneme morphs, however, these need much more than 8 targets. Can you please explain how to achieve this? Is it possible to have more than 8 targets, e.g. 50?

thanks,
jtrue

http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/phonemes.html shows how to get the phonemes and timing from an audio file.

Works quite well for small amounts of speech and avoids the tedious task of adjusting the frame timing to the audio track.

best regards,
Andy