Subj : YouTube Music fully rolls out new 'hum to search' feature and sta
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Jul 16 2024 18:30:05

YouTube Music fully rolls out new 'hum to search' feature and starts testing 
new AI-powered radio

Date:
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:14:26 +0000

Description:
YouTube Music's cool new tune-finding feature is finally coming to a phone 
near you.

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Back in March we reported that YouTube Music was testing a sound search 
feature that would let you to find music by humming, singing or playing it. 
It made its way to some users in May before Google appeared to roll it back 
well, now it's finally rolling out for everybody on iOS and Android. 

The feature's accuracy will of course depend on how well you can sing or hum 
it; while 'sound search' is clever, it isn't so smart that it can recognize a 
version that's not even in the same zip code as the original. 

But if the sound recognition can find a match it does so very quickly and 
will present you with key information including the song name and artist, the 
year and the download status. How to use sound search and what's coming next 
(Image credit: YouTube) 

To activate sound search, simply tap the magnifying glass in the top right 
corner of the YouTube Music app. This reveals a sound wave icon, and if you 
tap on that you'll get the full screen search page. Now all you need to do is 
belt out the banger and hope YouTube Music can work out what it is. 

That's not the only new feature coming to YouTube Music. According to 
9to5google , the service is now officially testing its AI-generated radio 
feature for US premium subscribers. 

 The rollout was spotted earlier this month for a very select few, but it now 
appears to be rolling out more widely to paying subscribers. The feature 
works by taking text or voice prompts and then creating a customized, 
personalized selection of music from them. 

As we noted at the time, the new feature could be a useful tool in the battle 
of the best music streaming services : because all the services have much the 
same catalog and charge much the same for their premium products, the music 
streamers are increasingly differentiating themselves on the basis of 
features. 

If you find yourself using a feature like Google's AI radio stations, that'll 
make YouTube's music offering much more sticky and our recent YouTube Music 
review also concluded that the service is particularly good for "listeners 
who want to leave mainstream music behind and embrace the obscure artist". 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/audio/audio-streaming/youtube-music-fully-rolls-out-
new-hum-to-search-feature-and-starts-testing-new-ai-powered-radio


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