Automatic conversion of speech into song, rap or other audible expression having target meter or rhythm

An apparatus comprising:

• a portable computing device;
• and
• machine readable code embodied in a non-transitory medium and executable on the portable computing device to transform an input audio encoding of speech into an output that is rhythmically consistent with a target song, the machine readable code including instructions executable to segment the input audio encoding of the speech into plural segments, the segments corresponding to successive sequences of samples of the audio encoding and delimited by onsets identified therein;
• the machine readable code further executable to map individual ones of the plural segments to respective sub-phrase portions of a phrase template for the target song, the mapping establishing one or more phrase candidates;
• the machine readable code further executable to temporally align at least one of the phrase candidates with a rhythmic skeleton for the target song;
• and
• the machine readable code further executable to prepare a resultant audio encoding of the speech in correspondence with the temporally aligned phrase candidate-mapped from onset-delimited segments of the input audio encoding.

A computer program product encoded in non-transitory media and including instructions executable to transform an input audio encoding of speech into an output that is rhythmically consistent with a target song, the computer program product encoding and comprising:

• instructions executable to segment the input audio encoding of the speech into plural segments, the segments corresponding to successive sequences of samples of the audio encoding and delimited by onsets identified therein;
• instructions executable to map individual ones of the plural segments to respective sub-phrase portions of a phrase template for the target song, the mapping establishing a one or more phrase candidates;
• instructions executable to temporally align at least one of the phrase candidates with a rhythmic skeleton for the target song;
• and
• instructions executable to prepare a resultant audio encoding of the speech in correspondence with the temporally aligned phrase candidate-mapped from onset delimited segments of the input audio encoding.