Let Microsoft be your back-up band

(Editor’s Note: this is the worst video I’ve ever seen in my entire life.  Feel free to point and laugh)

If you consider yourself a singer, but can never manage to get a band together to play back-up for you- them Microsoft has the perfect piece of software for you. Microsoft Songsmith is a program that allows you to sing into your computer and then the program will build an accompaniment for you that works along with the rhythm and tonality of what you’ve sung.  While this technology is not necessarily new, it is new to both Microsoft and stand-alone software as a whole.  Just imagine– this software and autotune and you’ve got yourself a hit… [via arstechnica]