consumerist.com - 1/14/2009
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My ears are shooting streams of blood
As I watch this demo play
But thanks to Songsmith's magic touch
I'll write like Bruce Springsteen
You don't have to rhyme when you're using Songsmith. The...
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research.microsoft.com - 1/8/2009
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research.microsoft.com —
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, ...
(more)
Microsoft Research Songsmith
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Microsoft relinquishes ‘worst promo video ever’ award to another department within Microsoft
CrunchGear —
... jaws on the floor, for three minutes and two seconds, each of us wondering if another video would ever come along to make this one go away.
Well here’s the promo video for Microsoft Songsmith, which not only features atrocious acting but incredibly abrasive singing. Best of all, it’s almost four and a half minutes long, which makes the Springsteen thing more appealing than ever before. Please enjoy with my compliments.
Also, is that little girl using a Mac?
[via Consumerist]
Videos: Microsoft’s Songsmith Promotional Video is Embarassing to Watch
The UberReview —
... Microsoft seems to have created its own little thing of creating deliberately bad promotional videos. I have to say, while we may mock profusely, it does give them a lot of publicity. This video is the usual fare, but what is amusing is that the laptop in the computer seems to be a last generation Mac Book Pro running Vista (albeit with a sticker covering the Apple logo. [Consumerist via ...
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