YouTube Music's latest features include 'hum to search' and AI-generated conversational radio

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July 15, 2024, 5:51 PM

• •YouTube Music is rolling out a new feature that lets users hum, sing or play a song on an instrument to find it in the catalog.
• •The feature is currently available to YouTube Music subscribers on both iOS and Android.
• •YouTube is also working on an AI-generated conversational radio tool that lets users describe the type of radio station they want to listen to and the algorithm will create a custom station based on that information.

YouTube Music is rolling out some fun new features, including the expansion of the “hum to search” tool that has been in beta for Android users since March. The company says this tool allows users to “search the YouTube Music catalog of over 100 million official songs” by using natural sound. It’s also been working on something called AI-generated conversational radio. This isn’t a platform in which AI DJs take jobs away from Wolfman Jack or whatever. Rather, it’s a tool that lets people use natural conversation to describe the type of radio station they want to listen to. The algorithm will take in that information and create some tailor-made radio.

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