Company Information. Khush is now part of Smule, Inc. (smule.com)Khush develops intelligent music applications for mobile phones. The company was founded by music technology enthusiasts at the Georgia Tech Music Intelligence Lab.
LaDiDa is a reverse karaoke iPhone application. When you sing into the phone, LaDiDa analyzes your voice and composes music to match. It also works on rap! View our demo videos to see it in action.
Most young college grads don't mind putting in long hours to work on someone else's product. Consultant-turned-blogger and musician Prerna Gupta, however, is far too independent for that.
Gupta began her career in management consulting, ostensibly to learn how to run a successful business. But after six months at Monitor Group, she found she was learning little more than "how to be a better consultant." After an impulsive six-week stint in venture capital, she finally heeded her muses and jumped headlong into entrepreneurship, launching Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India.
It works like this: the user makes a recording of themselves singing, which the program then analyzes to generate background music in a variety of styles (ranging from "Rhythm Synth Pop" to "Dirty South Rap"). Sounds like a party trick, but it's way more than that: for budding vocalists, LaDiDa means that being a musician is no longer a prerequisite to songwriting. Even the tone deaf need not be shy — it even features professional tools like pitch correction to keep you in key. Of course, once you're done recording, you can share your songs on Twitter and Facebook.