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Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 18 March 2024 19:30 IST

YouTube Music Reportedly Gets New Feature to Let s Hum or Sing a Song to Search It

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YouTube Music, as per reports, will get a dedicated button for song searches

Highlights

The YouTube Music feature uses AI to match the song
The YouTube Music feature was seen by a on iOS
Google Play Music offered a similar feature before being discontinued

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Android app of YouTube in October 2023, and it appears that it is now being expanded to the company's dedicated music app. The feature allows s to play a song, hum its tune, or sing to find the desired result.

According to a iOS apps in parallel. However, since many s have not received the feature so far, it is believed that a wider roll out has either not started, or it is being rolled out in batches and will take a few days before everyone has access to it.

The way the feature works is simple. Android s on the YouTube app can simply go to the search bar of the app and click the microphone icon to open a new screen that shows Voice and Song tabs. The voice tab allows s to run verbal searches, whereas the song tab allows them to hum a song, play it on another device, or sing it to let an AI match it with the original song.

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On YouTube Music, it reportedly works the same way. But as a plus, instead of going through the voice search and then finding the Song icon that looks like a waveform, s will find a dedicated icon next to the voice button. For reference, the functionality is also offered by Google Assistant and Google Search. Pixel phone s also have an option to identify a song using the Now playing feature. Long time Android s would that Google Play Music used to offer a similar feature in its hayday.

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