Microsoft Songsmith

Microsoft Songsmith is a musical accompaniment application for Windows, launched in early 2009.

Songsmith immediately generates a musical accompaniment after a voice is recorded. The user can adjust tempo, genre (such as pop, R&B, hip-hop, rock, jazz, or reggae), and overall mood (e.g. to make it happy, sad, jazzy, etc.)

The software was developed by a team at Microsoft Research, led by researchers Dan Morris and Sumit Basu. The product began as a research project called MySong, conducted at Microsoft Research in collaboration with a University of Washington student, Ian Simon, in the summer of 2007.

You can download a free trial here.

Songsmith is the second commercial project from Microsoft’s Microsoft Research, after AutoCollage.

Here is Microsoft’s excruciatingly yet hilarious video for the software!!!

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Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP