I've used the Annosoft command-line tool before. It's the cheapest solution. But it's accuracy is a tad bit hit-and miss. Also, it is as bare-bones as they come. You would almost certainly want to develop some kind of front-end for it if you are going to be using it in a production pipeline. It's biggest drawback is that…
Holy crap Vig, that was an epic series of helpful posts there! Thanks for the heads-up about Annosoft and Lifestudio. I'll give Voice-o-matic a look into; Image Metrics is out of the question unfortunately... @Vailias: FaceFX in UDK basically looks like a rig you animate yourself inside UDK? I already made one in Maya that…
I agree nothing is going to give you better results than doing it all by hand but what a task that is. I do a few metric tons of lip sync every year. Pretty much the same situation it sounds like. The two apps you're looking at, don't. They are both horrible. At work we looked into them both extensively and came to the…