Aramacao
a lip syncing application for LinuxNEWS
4/3/2021 - Version 1.2.4 released
Minor bug fixed, some change to GUI.
23/2/2021 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.2.3 was just released, now compatible with GCC 10.
7/3/2020 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.2.2 was just released, many bugfixes.
10/9/2017 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.2.1 was just released, better synchronization.
9/12/2016 - Short installation How-To
A short How-To about installing Aramacao from sources was added to the documentation page.
9/12/2016 - Stable release
Aramacao version 1.2.0 was just released, this is a new stable release.
8/12/2016 - New release candidate
Release candidate of Aramacao version 1.2 was just released, audio backend was moved to GStreamer.
26/11/2016 - Switch to GStreamer
Aramacao is switching its audio backend from libsox to GStreamer.
17/08/2016 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.1.3 was just released, fixed a bug when resizing phonemes from the left.
8/7/2016 - Libsox bug
A bug in libsox (bug #277) prevents PulseAudio to work as intended with Aramacao, PulseAudio users need to use ALSA or OSS interfaces.
11/1/2016 - Libsox bug
There is a bug in libsox (bug #272) that prevents Aramacao to work as intended when libsox is dynamically compiled.
11/1/2016 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.1.2 was just released, better compatibility with autotools.
30/12/2015 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.1.1 was just released, fixed a bug when loading savefiles with empty strings.
28/12/2015 - New stable release
Aramacao version 1.1 was just released.
18/5/2015 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.0.5 was just released, fixed a bug when using ALSA.
10/5/2015 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.0.4 was just released, fixed a bug that truncated comments when loaded from file.
5/5/2015 - New documentation
Added documentation about the text to phoneme conversion.
5/5/2015 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.0.3 was just released, fixed a bug that could cause a crash when inserting unknown words.
30/4/2015 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.0.2 was just released, fixed a bug that caused a GUI freeze.
25/4/2015 - Bugfix release
Aramacao version 1.0.1 was just released, fixed two bugs of the export tool.
24/4/2015 - Stable release
Aramacao version 1.0 was just released, it should be stable enough for production.
16/4/2015 - Change in the internal representation of phonemes
Today the representation of phonemes used by Aramacao 1.0 was finalized, this breaks compatibility with older save files.
15/4/2015 - New tutorial
Added a new tutorial about creating and using custom mouth poses.
8/4/2015 - New tutorial
Added a new tutorial about editing more than one character at once.
FEATURES
Here is a screenshot of Aramacao in action. The features of Aramacao include:
- automatically convert a script (in English, Italian or Spanish) in to phonemes
- add, remove and manually set phonemes
- export your project as an exposure sheet like this
- manage multiple characters through multiple windows
- custom phoneme sets (still alpha)
Licence
Aramacao is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GNU GPL v3).
DEPENDENCIES
In order to compile Aramacao from source code, you need:
- GTK+ 3 and its dependencies (GLib, Cairo, Atk etc.)
- GStreamer 1.0 (gstreamer, gstreamer-pbutils)
GStreamer plugins
This is a list of GStreamer plugins that can be useful to Aramacao:
- Base Plugins (ALSA driver, OGG/Vorbis)
- Good Plugins (various audio drivers, AU, FLAC, WAVE)
- Ugly Plugins (MPEG audio)
- Bad Plugins (Bs2b library support)
KNOWN BUGS
Click here for the complete list of bugs.
Troubleshooting
Some GTK themes are known to cause glitches and problems. If you're using Oxygen-GTK and you are experiencing crashes with drop-down lists, add the following lines to your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file:
* {
-GtkComboBox-appears-as-list: 0;
}
VERSION
Aramacao current version is 1.2.4.
NOTES
Aramacao was inspired by Papagayo. Some icons were taken or modified from icons taken from Cynthiune.
SOURCE CODE
You can download the latest source code of Aramacao from its SourceForge page here.
Source tarball
Here is the source tarball of Aramacao v1.2.4.
BINARY RELEASES
There are currently no releases.
Slackware
Here is a Slackbuild for Slackware Linux.
INSTALLATION FROM SOURCES
Debian/Ubuntu
First you need to install the development packages of GTK+3:sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-devThis should install all the required dependencies, too.
Then you need to install the development packages of GStreamer and GStreamer-pbutils:
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-devThen download Aramacao source code and run the usual Autotools to compile and install the software, e.g.:
./configure --prefix=/opt make sudo make install
Slackware
For Slackware a Slackbuild package is available at the download page.All the required headers and libraries are already installed in a common Slackware 14.x installation.
TUTORIALS
In English:
- A quick introduction to Aramacao
- Using multiple windows (or how to manage dialogues)
- Custom mouth poses
- Una rapida introduzione ad Aramacao (italiano)