Project Babble is an open-source mouth tracking project designed to work with any VR headset. We strive to make our models robust to different lighting, cameras, image qualities and facial structures!

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By defualt Project Babble is under a non-commerical license! Please contact us at [email protected] to obtain a commercial license!

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Links

Features

• 100% open-source! 🌟
• Fast and robust! 🚀
• Works with existing blendshape standards! ⚙️
• Constantly updated and modified! 🔧

Installation

Windows

Head to the releases section and download the latest installer.

Linux

Install git, curl and a version of python greater than 3.8 for your distro.

Then, copy paste and run the following script into the terminal of your choice:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dfgHiatus/a92a3caae24c1bfab1c7544537a654c5/raw/fc30aa550c3c7aa83c37a72168e75ef92388e39b/project-babble-install.sh)"

Once it's finished installing, you can update and run the Babble app by typing babble-app into your terminal.

You should also be able to run the Windows executable through Wine!

Notes:

If you receive a ["Error listing UVC devices on Linux ... No such file or directory"] when choosing/changing your camera, you'll need to install video4linux (v4l-utils) for your distro.

For Ubuntu or other distros with apt:

sudo apt-get install v4l-utils

If you receive a ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter' error message on run, you'll need to install tkinter for your distro.

For Ubuntu or other distros with apt:

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

For Fedora:

sudo dnf install python3-tkinter

You can read more about this here.

Usage

We have integrations for VRChat, Resonite and ChilloutVR!

Looking for something else? Check out our documentation!

Links

• Our Discord
• Our Twitter
• Wandb Runs