Khush, which makes music apps that turn regular speech into song, launched an a capella version of its popular Songify iOS app today called Talkapella.

Much like Songify, the company’s new Talkapella app transforms ordinary speech recorded on an iOS device into singing. However, in true a capella fashion, the singing won’t feature the background music (inspired by Gregory Brothers of Autotune the News fame) that Songify songs do.

“We believe that music is a fundamental form of human expression and a universal way to communicate,” Khush CEO Prerna Gupta told VentureBeat. “So, what we’re doing is launching apps that make it easier for people to make music in different ways.”

The app breaks the audio of a speech into four different parts. It then intelligently 
stretches and
 compresses the 
speech 
based on
 
location 
of
 vowels 
and 
consonants. The end result is a speech that is transformed into one voice of a capella harmony, Prerna said.

“When you listen to a harmony, traditionally what you hear is four different people’s voices acting as one voice,” Prerna said. “What we do is take your one voice and turn it into four different melodies that sound like one harmony.”

Talkapella is free to download in Apple’s App store and comes with two original harmony styles. Users have the option of purchasing more styles within the app.

Founded in 2009, the Atlanta, Georgia-based startup has raised $135 from 500 Startups, Shotput Ventures and angel investors Pat Matthews and Yee Lee. The company has also received $250,000 in government grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Science Foundation.