Notorious Siri

From Music Hack Day

Notorious Siri teaches Siri how to spit wicked lyrics.
Built by Robb Böhnke for Music Hack Day London 2011.

[edit] 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 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.

Big thanks to Universal Music for awarding me a nice pair of Dr. Dre headphones

[edit] Video

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[edit] Tech used

• SiriProxy - for hooking into Siri
• Echonest API - for beat detection
• Spotify - for triggering Bohemian Rhapsody