# Lesson 3: Lip Syncing

Lip syncing can be the most tedious task in the animation process. Before you can even begin drawing the lip positions, you have to analyze the voice track to determine what lip position best matches the sound at each frame.

Toon Boom Studio features a lip sync tool that analyzes the sounds in a voice track and generates a lip chart based on the eight animation phonemes. In addition to that, Toon Boom Studio has a tool that will automatically map drawings in an element based on the sounds they match. These two tools together will save you tons of time so that you can focus on more interesting and creative tasks.

There are two animation sets for this lesson:

- Lip_Sync_Rough
- Lip_Sync_Final

To start the Lip Sync lesson:

1. Open the Lip_Sync_Rough animation set in the Lesson3_LipSync folder.

2. Save the animation in a location of your choice using File > Save As.