scobleizer.com - 1/8/2009
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Microsoft released a very cool app tonight called Songsmith . You sing to it. It builds music. I could write a lot more in text and you’d never get it, so instead, let’s discover it together in this first video demo, done in a hotel room at CES with the Songsmith team just a ...
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What is Songsmith? Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to
match a singer s voice. Just choose a musical...
style, sing into your PC s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, ...
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Mr. Microphone 2.0: Microsoft Songsmith Puts Even the Worst Lyrics to Music
ReadWriteWeb —
... Scoble has just posted an interview and demo with two researchers from Microsoft - who coincidentally also star in the promo video. They provide additional insight on the product and highlight some of its potential applications. ...
New from Microsoft: Aye-yi-yi-Tunes
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... to whatever lyrics you want to warble. Lay down your vocal track, pick a style and a mood, and Songsmith automagically strings together the back-up chords and allows for additional tweaking. For a sample of the disturbing ramifications, you need only watch the preview video in which a family sings its way through work and play, turning their life into a bizarre operetta. My favorite part is where dad is in a coffee shop knocking out a reggae jingle for glow-in-the-dark towels, and a guy looking over his shoulder says, “Microsoft, huh? So it’s pretty easy to use?” Try it if ...
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Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... * Note: the people in the video are real researchers from the Songsmith team in Redmond, as you can see from Robert Scoble's hotel-room demo, which shows you the software. And they might just be taking the p*ss out of some old Apple videos. ...
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