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What viseme vocabularies and timing outputs do Oculus Lipsync, Azure Speech, Amazon Polly and Rhubarb produce?

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Corrected 2026-10-23 - see C3-B642-01 and C3-B642-02; the original statements below are kept for history and are superseded where the correction says so. Four public viseme outputs differ in vocabulary and time unit: Oculus Lipsync 15 named visemes (docs marked no longer updated and subject to removal); Azure 22 integer IDs (0 = silence) with offsets in 100-ns ticks, optional SVG (en-US only) or 60 fps blend-shape frames of 55 values; Amazon Polly speech marks with millisecond times and per-language viseme symbols (archived awsdocs guide); Rhubarb 6 basic + 3 optional shapes (A-F, G, H, X) with seconds-based TSV and a Preston Blair alias only for dat export.

Four public viseme outputs differ in vocabulary and time unit: Oculus Lipsync 15 named visemes (docs marked no longer updated and subject to removal); Azure 22 integer IDs (0 = silence) with offsets in 100-ns ticks, optional SVG (en-US only) or 60 fps blend-shape frames of 55 values; Amazon Polly speech marks with millisecond times and per-language viseme symbols (archived awsdocs guide); Rhubarb 6 basic + 3 optional shapes (A-F, G, H, X) with seconds-based TSV and a Preston Blair alias only for dat export. Curator correction 2026-10-23 (discovery audit record C3-B642-01; sources re-fetched 2026-10-23, excerpts re-located by curator GET): Problem. C2-B06-D-05 says Azure emits viseme IDs 0-21 plus optional SVG or a 60 fps blendshape matrix without any locale condition. Conditions. The Azure viseme page restricts the outputs by locale. Method. Before building a pipeline on Azure viseme events, check the voice locale against the current supported-locales list; use viseme IDs/blend shapes only for listed locales and expect SVG only for en-US. Failure modes. A non-en-US voice may return no SVG animation, so a 2D mouth-shape pipeline built from the C2 summary would silently get nothing. Limitations. The page links to, but this audit did not fetch, the locale list itself, so which locales are covered is not stated here. The IDs 0-21, ticks (100 ns) and 55 values per frame at 60 FPS in C2-B06-D-05 were re-checked and are supported. Version/date. Page fetched 2026-10-23; no version stamp on the page. Curator correction 2026-10-23 (discovery audit record C3-B642-02; sources re-fetched 2026-10-23, excerpts re-located by curator GET): Problem. C2-B06-D-05 states that Meta marks the Lipsync pages as end-of-life documentation. Conditions. The Meta viseme reference page carries an explicit End-of-Life notice, but it names the Oculus Spatializer Plugin. Method. Treat Lipsync as an archived, unmaintained SDK: the page says its documentation is no longer being updated and is subject for removal; do not describe it as formally end-of-life without a Lipsync-specific notice. Failure modes. Quoting the banner as a Lipsync end-of-life statement misattributes the notice. Limitations. Other Meta pages (SDK download, release notes) were not checked and may state a Lipsync end-of-life explicitly. The 15 viseme names (sil, PP, FF, TH, DD, kk, CH, SS, nn, RR, aa, E, ih, oh, ou) in C2 were confirmed on the page. Version/date. Page fetched 2026-10-23; the identical text was served from developer.oculus.com. Curator qualifications: Documentation read 2026-10-22; no audio processed; no engine run; mapping not tested. Azure SVG is en-US only (curator addition from the same page). Meta page is dynamic; producer byte pin not reproduced, content equal at text level for the cited table. Doc reuse terms: Meta/Microsoft/AWS not read; Rhubarb MIT per producer (LICENSE not reread). Limitations: Documentation read 2026-10-22; no audio processed; no engine run; mapping not tested. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/audio-ovrlipsync-viseme-reference/",
      "note": "Meta Oculus Lipsync viseme reference (live page, 2026-10-22; bytes differ from producer pin 731aa44d, page is dynamic); Azure Speech how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme (C# pivot; live 2026-10-22); awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide 97b0d81 doc_source/using-speechmarks.md; awsdocs 97b0d81 doc_source/viseme.md; rhubarb-lip-sync 9b9573c README.adoc Mouth shapes, CLI options, dat export"
    },
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      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme?pivots=programming-language-csharp",
      "note": "Meta Oculus Lipsync viseme reference (live page, 2026-10-22; bytes differ from producer pin 731aa44d, page is dynamic); Azure Speech how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme (C# pivot; live 2026-10-22); awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide 97b0d81 doc_source/using-speechmarks.md; awsdocs 97b0d81 doc_source/viseme.md; rhubarb-lip-sync 9b9573c README.adoc Mouth shapes, CLI options, dat export"
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      "url": "https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide/blob/97b0d81ab6468129948d48beb767da1d692f2f27/doc_source/using-speechmarks.md",
      "note": "Meta Oculus Lipsync viseme reference (live page, 2026-10-22; bytes differ from producer pin 731aa44d, page is dynamic); Azure Speech how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme (C# pivot; live 2026-10-22); awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide 97b0d81 doc_source/using-speechmarks.md; awsdocs 97b0d81 doc_source/viseme.md; rhubarb-lip-sync 9b9573c README.adoc Mouth shapes, CLI options, dat export"
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      "url": "https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide/blob/97b0d81ab6468129948d48beb767da1d692f2f27/doc_source/viseme.md",
      "note": "Meta Oculus Lipsync viseme reference (live page, 2026-10-22; bytes differ from producer pin 731aa44d, page is dynamic); Azure Speech how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme (C# pivot; live 2026-10-22); awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide 97b0d81 doc_source/using-speechmarks.md; awsdocs 97b0d81 doc_source/viseme.md; rhubarb-lip-sync 9b9573c README.adoc Mouth shapes, CLI options, dat export"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/DanielSWolf/rhubarb-lip-sync/blob/9b9573cd21b253c9ba58739bbd1aa0b50b991bff/README.adoc",
      "note": "Meta Oculus Lipsync viseme reference (live page, 2026-10-22; bytes differ from producer pin 731aa44d, page is dynamic); Azure Speech how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme (C# pivot; live 2026-10-22); awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide 97b0d81 doc_source/using-speechmarks.md; awsdocs 97b0d81 doc_source/viseme.md; rhubarb-lip-sync 9b9573c README.adoc Mouth shapes, CLI options, dat export"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme",
      "note": "correction source (record C3-B642-01): intro paragraph, locale note; intro paragraph, locale note"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/audio-ovrlipsync-viseme-reference",
      "note": "correction source (record C3-B642-02): cited at https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/audio-ovrlipsync-viseme-reference/; top of Viseme Reference; top of Viseme Reference"
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Four public viseme outputs differ in vocabulary and time unit: Oculus Lipsync 15 named visemes (docs marked no longer updated and subject to removal); Azure 22 integer IDs (0 = silence) with offsets in 100-ns ticks, optional SVG (en-US only) or 60 fps blend-shape frames of 55 values; Amazon Polly speech marks with millisecond times and per-language viseme symbols (archived awsdocs guide); Rhubarb 6 basic + 3 optional shapes (A-F, G, H, X) with seconds-based TSV and a Preston Blair alias only for dat export. · locator: Meta Oculus Lipsync viseme reference (live page, 2026-10-22; bytes differ from producer pin 731aa44d, page is dynamic); Azure Speech how-to-speech-synthesis-viseme (C# pivot; live 2026-10-22); awsdocs/amazon-polly-developer-guide 97b0d81 doc_source/using-speechmarks.md; awsdocs 97b0d81 doc_source/viseme.md; rhubarb-lip-sync 9b9573c README.adoc Mouth shapes, CLI options, dat export source

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