This afternoon I have mostly been rapping. The song of choice – I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper). Robin is disturbed and frankly my rhyming skillz aren’t up to much. The author of this track – a Mister T-Pain, who despite his rather loose morals and disturbing lyrics released a rather nifty iPhone App last year – the source of my fun this afternoon. It allows you to sing along karaoke style to his latest instrumental tracks and record your own version. The app then uses AutoTune to try and get you to sound vaguely like a US Hip Hop megastar. It works – although my silky Geordie undertones are still present, it has made me sound a lot more in tune and in time. I won’t be giving up the day job though!
In a rather neat way you can then share with your friends on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or by email. And no, I will not be uploading my version. It’s terribly embarrassing and my wife might divorce me when she hears me singing some of those disgraceful lyrics. User’s can then listen to and comment on other people’s tracks as they are broadcast. As an added bonus you can then sing over any track in your iTunes library.
It’s karaoke with gloss. The autotune element makes it much more interesting than just a simple audio playback. It is produced by Smule who have pedigree in audio iPhone Apps. They produced sound tool apps like, leaf trombone, Zephyr, Ocarina, Sonic Vox, Sonic Boom. I am T-Pain takes it to the next level though, perfectly targeted at an engaged audience.
Get it here…
WhatTheFont for iPhone
42 days, 17 hours and 20 seconds. A conservative estimate of the amount of time I’ve wasted over the years hunting high and low, trying to identify a specific font.
No longer. A dream.