This article was published on December 14, 2011

Watch Siri Hypnotize you with her Notoriously good rap skills


Watch Siri Hypnotize you with her Notoriously good rap skills

This hack, accomplished for the Music Hack Day 2011 competition in London, has Siri laying down some serious flow in a rendition of Hypnotize by Notorious B.I.G. It’s actually far better than I thought it would be before I watched it.

Creator Robert Boehnke explains how the hack was accomplished:

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 4 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.

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