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Microsoft Research Songsmith is a musical accompaniment application for Microsoft Windows, launched in early 2009. Songsmith immediately generates a musical accompaniment after a voice is recorded. The user can adjust tempo,
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(such as
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, R&B, hip-hop, rock,
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), 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
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student, Ian Simon, in the summer of 2007. Songsmith is the second commercial project from Microsoft's Microsoft Research, after AutoCollage. Morris and Basu starred in an
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that became a
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. The video was featured on the Australian ABC TV program ''
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'' as a competitor for the Worst Ad Ever. The release of the software spawned an
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where the vocal tracks of popular songs are fed into the program.


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