📅 March 10, 2012

Rocksmith x Beats By Dre Notorious B.I.G. Tribute

Rocksmith pays tribute to the legendary Notorious B.I.G, partnering up with Beats By Dre to produce a limited edition tee.

Rocksmith pays tribute to the legendary Notorious B.I.G, partnering up with Beats By Dre to produce a limited edition tee. Available today March 9th, 2012 at the Beats by Dre store in SoHo, NYC, the shirt is limited to only 39 pieces and commemorates Biggy Smalls death date of March 9th, 1997.

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📅 December 14, 2011

Notorious Siri: SiriProxy Plugin Teaches Siri To Rap Notorious B.I.G’s “Hypnotize” [video]

Developer Robb Böhnke hacked Siri to rap Biggie’s “Hypnotize” to compete in the Music Hack Day Project.

Developer Robb Böhnke hacked Siri to rap Biggie’s “Hypnotize” to compete in the Music Hack Day Project.

How does it work?

SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple’s servers. Based on your song request, Notorious Siri then sends your choice of Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize and an a-cappella rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody to the device (the latter requiring for iPhones 4S).

Siri’s speech synthesis is synced to the beat using the timestamps obtained from the Echonest API which were then manually tweaked, to smooth out delays in the text-to-speech engine.

Check out the video after the break…

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