24. The apparatus of claim 23 , embodied as one or more of a computing pad, a handheld mobile device, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, a smart phone, a media player and a book reader.
23. 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.