Research Gone Bad
Posted in Technology on February 1st, 2009 by tparette – Be the first to commentMany large corporations have research divisions that have helped create many great products. This is not one of them. Microsoft Research created Songsmith. The intent of this effort was for the user to sing lyrics and Songsmith will create the music accompaniment. Below is the video created by Microsoft which itself is pretty bad.
The fun part of this story is people have been using this, playing lyrics of hit songs into it to see what the song would sound like. The song below, Roxanne by the Police is a hilarious example of the music Soundsmith created. People have posted many Songsmith songs on YouTube.
My guess is Microsoft intended this to be similar to Rock Band. Not quite there but it is good for some laughs.