Parag Chordia

Extremely excited to announce that Khush and Smule have joined forces!

USA Today

Smule snags Songify app creator

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-12-01/smule-khush-music-apps/51544284/1

TechCrunch

Smule Acquires Khush To Further Boost Their Music Cred

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/smule-acquires-khush-to-further-boost-their-music-cred/

All Things D

Music App-Maker Smule Adds More Voices, Buys Music App-Maker Khush

http://allthingsd.com/20111201/music-app-maker-smule-adds-more-voices-buys-music-app-maker-khush/?refcat=social

Forbes

Creating music app harmony: Smule to acquire Khush

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/12/01/creating-music-app-harmony-smule-to-acquire-khush/

GigaOm

Smule builds social music app empire by buying Khush

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/01/smule-builds-social-music-app-empire-by-buying-khush/

Venture Beat

Smush:  Music app maker Smule and Khush sound great together in new deal

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/01/smule-khush/

MacWorld

Music to their ears:  Smule to acquire Khush

http://www.macworld.com/article/163921/2011/12/music_to_their_ears_smule_to_acquire_khush.html

San Francisco Chronicle

Smule smushes together with Khush

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2011/12/01/smule-smushes-together-with-khush/

Associated Press

Smule buys fellow music app creator Khush

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAuAwK_cFiE03FjqOPzdTnmCt_5Q?docId=6d5e25be03b049ed9bbae3dd44497313

San Jose Mercury News

Smule buys fellow music app creator Khush

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19447876

Huffington Post

Smule buys fellow music app creator Khush

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20111201/us-tec-smule-acquisition/

AOL Daily Finance

Smule buys fellow music app creator Khush

http://www.dailyfinance.com/article/smule-buys-fellow-music-app-creator/2050692/

Newsday

Smule buys fellow music app creator Khush

http://www.newsday.com/business/smule-buys-fellow-music-app-creator-khush-1.3359070

From GT’s own Technique, a nice profile of Khush: “Company embraces musical conscience”

Had a blast performing on sarod and speaking at the SF Exploratorium, a great hands-on science museum doing a monthly series on a given topic — this time music and creativity. Shared some insights as a performer and some recent research we’ve conducting in my lab on the neural substrates of improvisation.

We recently launched a new app that takes your speech and creates a vocal harmony using only your voice. The concept is broadly similar to Songify, but the experience is totally different. It’s much less poppy, more introspective and immersive, and more likely to appeal to people who are into acapella. Technically, we had to significantly extend the technology behind Songify to make the voice smoother and more sing-songy. Venturebeat convered the launch here.

I was recently interviewed, along with electronic musician Richard Devine, for an interesting article on electronic music.

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Analysis by Robert Lamb
Mon Jul 25, 2011 09:11 AM ET

From the use of Auto-Tuned pop music to such popular subgenres as dubstep, electronic music seems to be everywhere. But is it “real music,” or something inauthentic and artificial?

Really excited about our new app Songify, which let’s anyone create a song simply be speaking. There’s some pretty interesting stuff under the hood dealing with hard problems in speech segmentation and melodifying speech. Amazingly a music creation app has been the top-downloaded app in the app store for the past week! Checkout some of our coverage below as well as silly demo vid we put together.

• New York Times, An App That Makes Your Words Musical
• Mashable, Gregory Brothers’ First-Ever App Turns Speech To Song
• TheNextWeb, LaDiDa and Gregory Brothers Team Up To Launch Songify App
• Forbes, YouTube Sensations Gregory Brothers Release Songify iPhone App
• Guardian, Apps Rush
• MSNBC, Songify App Gives You The Voice
• ComputerWeekly, Budding Songwriter? There’s an App For That.
• WashingtonPost, Gregory Brothers Create Songify App That Turns Speech Into Song
• CNET, Songify Makes Your Speech Into Song
• MacWorld, LaDiDa and Songify for iPhone
• Billboard, This Week In Apps
• The Daily, Input Words, Output Music

I was recently awarded an NSF CAREER! A bit about the project below.

When a person is listening to a song, she is anticipating, at any given moment, the timing and nature of the next event by decoding the musical signal. Even when analyzing a simple song, the brain utilizes complex correlations between the musical elements to make accurate predictions. Musical signals are richly patterned, with long-term dependencies, dependencies across time-scales, and correlations between parallel information streams; the melody depends on the rhythm, the rhythmic patterns depend on the form, and the intonation of the pitch depends on the placement within the phrase. The goal of this NSF CAREER project is to develop machine- learning (ML) models for predicting temporally structured events in the context of music, which take advantage of these complex correlations, and to use these models to help explain human musical expectation.

Khush is now a 500 startups company!

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/khush-lands-funding-to-help-wannabe-singers-create-music-on-the-go/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/09/pleasure-products-painkillers/