In separate tabs, activate port-forwarding:

kubectl port-forward -n $namespace a2f-with-emotion-a2f-deployment-XXX 50010:50010
kubectl port-forward -n $namespace ia-animation-graph-microservice-deployment-0 8020:8020

Note that the Audio2Face-3D pod has a random suffix, which must be adapted in the above command.

Let’s now take a sample audio file to feed into Audio2Face-3D to drive the facial speaking animation.

Normally, you would send audio to Audio2Face-3D through its gRPC API. For convenience, a python script allows you to do this through the command line. Follow the steps to setup the script.

The script comes with a sample audio file that is compatible with Audio2Face-3D. Run the following command to send the sample audio file to Audio2Face-3D:

Note

Audio2Face-3D requires audio to be in 16KHz, mono-channel format.